Summary

Art Tatum Trio record titled 'Rehearsal Vol. 2', in its original album cover. It was recorded in New York and copyrighted in 1952. The record is aimed to be a demonstration of how jazz is made, and the musician's process. Lindsay Motherwell was a jazz drummer and enjoyed a variety of music along with his wife Sylvia.


Sylvia Boyes (a South African-born orphan) and Lindsay Motherwell (a Melbourne-born drummer) met in Cape Town, South Africa in 1967 through their theatre connections. They fell in love but due to apartheid laws were forced to leave South Africa to marry in London. They subsequently relocated permanently to Melbourne in 1970.

Physical Description

10" record with a 33 1/3 RPM, in its original paper sleeve within a cardboard album cover. The front cover black with a black and white paper label stuck on the front, featuring an image of Art Tatum at a piano, the title "REHEARSAL VOL 2 WITH THE ART TATUM TRIO", the names of the three musicians "art tatum; slam stewart; tiny grimes", the titles of the songs and the details of the record producers.

Significance

Statement of Historical Significance:
This collection provides a significant opportunity to represent political and personal freedom as a motivation for migrating to Australia within the international context of both apartheid in South Africa and the end of the White Australia policy in Australia. The personal narrative is well documented and the objects provide a material way to follow the lives of both Lindsay and Sylvia, both separately and where they coincide in South Africa and onwards together to Melbourne. While this is ultimately a love story, it plays out through the collection against the backdrop of apartheid South Africa, sixties London and an increasingly multicultural Australia.

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