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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]
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.
The song’s strong stance against police brutality and systemic racism made it a target for censorship in Tipper Gore’s America. Looking back, “Fuck you, I won’t do what you tell me ...
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 .
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 ...
John Hicks has done a service to jazz fans by exploring the music of Erroll Garner in greater detail". [2] JazzTimes wrote: "Hicks is a very different pianist than Garner: his left hand carries subtle dynamic shadings, where Garner's was all about time. He shares with Garner a reverence for melody and a sense of musical destination that gives ...
Here are 22 songs you forgot you were totally, utterly obsessed with in the '90s. Hear 'em and weep. "Stay (I Missed You)" by Lisa Loeb (1995)