The jazzers already know this stuff--or they should and shame on them if they don't. Art's legend needs to be spread into other genres besides jazz. That's the best chance not of preserving it (it's already recorded) but of keeping it alive and growing. What a waste if the bast majority of his legacy sits there in suspended animation for the rest of time. If the jazzers aren't going to use it, then other genres must show them how. I see folk as the most viable candidate with which to accomplish this.

Tatum's school might be the very antidote for the doldrums in which modern music languishes as it drifts aimlessly about.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLYT3cPA5T8&playnext=1&list=PLDF0FF3791590FB71&feature=results_video