At JazzWax, my review of "Erroll Garner: Ready Take One," an album of previously unreleased work from 1967 to '71 https://t.co/285DECIZlQ pic.twitter.com/Z2fYIzThW6— Marc Myers (@JazzWax) October 3, 2016
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Wednesday, June 17, 2015
Erroll Garner's The Complete Concert
Erroll Garner's The Complete Concert By The Sea To Be Released On 60th Anniversary Weekend September 18, 2015
FEATURING 11 PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED TRACKS, BONUS ANNOUNCER COMMENTARY, NEVER-BEFORE-HEARD INTERVIEWS WITH THE GARNER TRIO IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING THE CONCERT AND PRODUCED BY GERI ALLEN AND STEVE ROSENTHAL
NEW YORK, June 15, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Iconic Jazz artist Erroll Garner's greatest concert album and one of the best selling jazz albums of all time, The Complete Concert By The Sea will be released jointly by Sony Legacy and Octave Music Publishing Corporation on September 18, 2015 – in celebration of 60 years since the original concert.
The set is available for pre-order on Amazon here: http://smarturl.it/EG_TCCBTS_Amzn
The complete live concert recording – newly uncovered by the Erroll Garner Jazz Project and digitally remastered in its entirety after six decades – is produced by Guggenheim® Award-winning jazz pianist and Director of Jazz Studies at the University of Pittsburgh Geri Allen and 4-time GRAMMY®Award-winning producer Steve Rosenthal. The Complete Concert By The Sea will introduce a new generation to Erroll Garner and his innovative piano playing. The 3-CD box set contains the complete live Concert By The Sea including 11 previously unreleased tracks, the original edited Columbia release from 1956 (digitally restored and remastered at The Magic Shop, NYC using the Plangent Process) and bonus material including announcer Jimmy Lyons and interviews with the Erroll Garner trio: Denzil DaCosta Best, Eddie Calhoun, and Garner himself, recorded directly after the concert.
Liner note writers include Geri Allen, Award-winning author and UCLA American Studies Professor Robin D.G. Kelley, PHd, and GRAMMY®Award-winning jazz writer Dan Morgenstern who writes: "I don't think I need to tell you how significant a figure Erroll Garner is in the history of American music. His artistry transcended categories over four decades. Without ever saying a word or indulging in showbiz trimmings, he could just play the piano and hold thousands enraptured."
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Tuesday, June 16, 2015
Jazz musician Erroll Garner’s materials donated to library
By MARY NIEDERBERGER - Associated Press - Monday, June 15, 2015
Photo: community.berkleejazz.org
PITTSBURGH (AP) - The man who wrote the music to the song “Misty” is long gone, but his legacy will live in his hometown.
The professional materials of internationally renowned jazz pianist Erroll Garner, an East Liberty native who died in 1977, have been donated to the University of Pittsburgh Library System by the estate of Martha Glaser, Garner’s longtime agent and manager and a civil-rights advocate who also grew up in Pittsburgh.
The announcement was made today, which would have been Garner’s 94th birthday. He died of lung cancer at age 55 and is buried in Homewood Cemetery.
“He was one of the major pianists in the history of jazz, and so by definition this is an important acquisition,” said Bill Kirchner, author of the “Oxford Companion to Jazz,” who noted that Mr. Garner was self-taught. “What is amazing is he couldn’t read a word of music. Everything he did was totally by ear.”
After graduating from Westinghouse High School, Garner left for New York City in 1944. Ten years later, he composed the music to “Misty,” his most well-known ballad, which was recorded by Johnny Mathis in 1954, becoming his signature song.
The donated materials include correspondence, performance and recording contracts, photographs, sheet music, awards and sound and video recordings. They also include such memorabilia as a cocktail napkin with a sketch of Garner made in a Paris jazz club and a telephone book. Under his contract with Sol Hurok, a fabled impresario and producer in the mid-20th century, Garner insisted on a telephone directory for the New York City borough of Manhattan that he could sit on while playing because of his short stature, Kirchner said.
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Sunday, January 27, 2013
Saturday, June 16, 2012
Jazz Musician of the Day: Erroll Garner
All About Jazz is celebrating Erroll Garner's birthday today!
Born in Pittsburgh in 1921 (Sy Johnson\'s biographical note in The Erroll Garner Songbook has June 15, 1923 as Garner\'s birthdate), Errol Garner started playing piano at the age of two (three according to Johnson). He never learned to read music, probably because it was never a necessity for him. He learned to play the \'novelty\' styles of Zez Confrey and others from listening to 78 records...Read more.
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Erroll Garner: London, 1964
Reprinted from http://jazzwax.com
I'm on the road this week for the Wall Street Journal. Which is neither here nor there when it comes to why you're here at JazzWax now. So, I can think of no better way to start the week than with 35 minutes of Erroll Garner, filmed in London in 1964. In jazz, there are pianists. And there is Erroll Garner. That's Eddie Calhoun on bass and Kelly Martin on drums. Special thanks to John Cooper for passing along this clip...
In today's Wall Street Journal, I write about the rise of Latin boogaloo in New York in the early 1960s and how 
the music is being kept alive today by younger artists and DJs, and older masters like Johnny Colon. You'll only find this article in New York editions of the paper's "Greater New York" section or online here.
the music is being kept alive today by younger artists and DJs, and older masters like Johnny Colon. You'll only find this article in New York editions of the paper's "Greater New York" section or online here.
Used with permission by Marc Myers
Thursday, May 20, 2010
Erroll Garner, the steady beat...
Hey, this is the Garner style. Tempo is good. I hear a little Bud Powell, don't you? His left hand sure amazes me every time I hear. But Garner wasn't my favorite. If you listen to the second tune, In a mellow Tone, you'll realize why he couldn't be mu favorite. He could fake the melody line but never be the excellent improvisation performer, I'd say.
But well, I like his intonation. That appears his third tune, Don't worry 'bout me. His ballad play is kind of boring and easily gets into the category of cocktail piano. He cannot be a player who can go along with drummer of bassist, I assume. You feel thrill with driving piano but never with the accompanist, right?
He's gone in 1977, at his age of 55. It's a long time ago. According to the WikiPedia, he's been active till 1974.I see interesting comment on him in the wiki, saying "Short in stature (5 foot 2 inches) Garner performed sitting on multiple telephone directories, except when playing NY, where Manhattan phone book was sufficient." Mmmmm...
http://howtoplayjazzpiano.blogspot.com/2010/05/erroll-garner-steady-beat.html
Erroll Garner plays Standards
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