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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.
Concert by the Sea is a live album by pianist Erroll Garner that was released by Columbia in 1955. [1] It sold over a million dollars' worth of retail copies by 1958, [2] qualifying for gold record status by the definition of that time but has never been acknowledged as such by the RIAA.
Ready Take One is a compilation album of previously unreleased Erroll Garner recordings. The album was released in 2016 by Legacy.The songs were pulled from sessions in 1967, 1969, and 1971. [1]
The Erroll Garner Archive is the collection of correspondence, sheet music, recordings of memorabilia of jazz musician Erroll Garner. [1] It is housed with the Archives Service Center, University Library System, University of Pittsburgh of the University of Pittsburgh .
Martha Farkas Glaser (February 15, 1921 – December 3, 2014) was the manager, producer, and business partner of jazz musician Erroll Garner. She was also a civil rights activist. [1] Though she was best known for her role as Garner's manager, she was also a prolific writer of lyrics and poetry.
Erroll Garner was inspired to write "Misty" on a flight from San Francisco to Chicago which passed through a thunderstorm: as the plane descended into O'Hare, Garner looked through the window to see a rainbow glowing through a haze and was moved to begin composing "Misty" on the spot, striking imaginary piano keys on his knees as he hummed the notes he imagined (causing his neighboring ...
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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 ] McCarty was born in South Chicago to Samarie Hunter McCarty and Ernest McCarty Sr. [ 2 ] His mother had some Native American ancestry and his father was part Scottish and insisted he use ...