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"Full Moon and Empty Arms" is a 1945 popular song by Buddy Kaye and Ted Mossman, based on Sergei Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2. [1]The best-known recording of the song was made by Frank Sinatra in 1945 [2] and reached No. 17 in the Billboard charts.
Ernest McCarty Jr. (born March 26, 1941) is an upright bass player, musical composer, and playwright. He is known for playing with Erroll Garner from 1970 until Garner's death in 1977, as well as for plays he has written, scored and directed. [1] [2]
Erroll Louis Garner (June 15, 1921 – January 2, 1977) [1] [2] [3] was an American jazz pianist and composer known for his swing playing and ballads. His instrumental ballad "Misty", his best-known composition, has become a jazz standard.
L.A. Phil's Rachmaninoff Festival finds a curious, though unintended, relevance thanks to its surprise connections with Philip Glass. Commentary: The curious case of Rachmaninoff and his ...
Rachmaninoff's compositions cover a variety of musical forms and genres. Born in Novgorod , Russia in 1873, he studied at the Moscow Conservatory with Nikolai Zverev , Alexander Siloti , Sergei Taneyev and Anton Arensky , and while there, composed some of his most famous works, including the first piano concerto (Op. 1) and the Prelude in C ...
Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff [a] [b] (1 April [O.S. 20 March] 1873 – 28 March 1943) was a Russian composer, virtuoso pianist, and conductor.Rachmaninoff is widely considered one of the finest pianists of his day and, as a composer, one of the last great representatives of Romanticism in Russian classical music.
From 1967 to 1974 he played with Erroll Garner before moving to California around 1975. ... With Phineas Newborn, Jr. Look Out - Phineas Is Back! (Pablo, 1976 [1978])
Arthur Tatum Jr. (/ ˈ t eɪ t əm /, October 13, 1909 – November 5, 1956) was an American jazz pianist who is widely regarded as one of the greatest ever. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] From early in his career, fellow musicians acclaimed Tatum's technical ability as extraordinary.