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Erroll Garner

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. It was first recorded in 1956 with Mitch Miller and his orchestra, and played a prominent part in the 1971 motion picture Play Misty for Me.[4]

Erroll Garner

Erroll Louis Garner

(1921-06-15)June 15, 1921
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.

January 2, 1977(1977-01-02) (aged 55)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Jazz

  • Musician
  • composer

Piano

1944–1974

Scott Yanow of Allmusic calls him "one of the most distinctive of all pianists" and a "brilliant virtuoso".[5] Garner received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6363 Hollywood Boulevard. His live album Concert by the Sea[6] first released in 1955, sold more than 1 million copies by 1958, and Yanow's opinion on the album is that it "made such a strong impression that Garner was considered immortal from then on."[7]

Penthouse Serenade (1945–1949), MG12002

Savoy

Serenade To Laura (1945–1949), Savoy MG12003

Giants of the Piano (split album with ) (1947 Hollywood recordings with Red Callender, Hal West), Roost 2213; Vogue LAE 12209

Art Tatum

Early in Paris (1948), Blue Music Group

Back To Back (split album with ) (1949), Savoy MG12008

Billy Taylor

Erroll Garner (August 1949) (Los Angeles recordings with , Alvin Stoller), (2 volumes: Joker BM 3718 and BM 3719)

John Simmons

The Greatest Garner (1949–1950), 1227

Atlantic

Piano Moods (1950), CL6139 [10"]

Columbia

Gems (1951), Columbia CL6173 [10"]; (1954); Columbia CL583 [12"]

Solo Flight (1952), Columbia CL6209 [10"]; B 07602 R [10"]

Philips

Plays for Dancing (1953), Columbia CL6259 [10"]; (1956) Columbia CL667 [12"]

Erroll Garner (At the Piano) (1953) (with , Fats Heard), Columbia CL535; Philips B 07015 L; reissue: CBS [UK] 62 311

Wyatt Ruther

Gone With Garner (1954), MG26042

EmArcy

Garnering (1954), EmArcy MG36026

Mambo Moves Garner (1954), MG20055

Mercury

(1954), EmArcy MG36001

Contrasts

Erroll! (Erroll Garner In The Land Of Hi-Fi) (1954–1955), EmArcy MG36069

Plays Misty (1954–1955), Mercury MG20662

Solitaire (1955), Mercury MG20063

Afternoon of an Elf (1955), Mercury MG20090

Gone Garner Gonest (1955), Columbia CL617

Music for Tired Lovers, with singing (!) (1955), Columbia CL651

Woody Herman

(September 19, 1955), Columbia CL883; also released later in an expanded three-CD version The Complete Concert by the Sea (2015)

Concert by the Sea

Garnerland (1955), Columbia CL2540 [10"] released in Columbia's "House Party Series"

He's Here! He's Gone! He's Garner! (1956), Columbia CL2606 [10"] released in Columbia's "House Party Series"

After Midnight (1956), Columbia CL-834

The Most Happy Piano (1957), Columbia CL939 [Italian CBS reissue, Il magico pianoforte di Erroll Garner, CBS Serie Rubino 52065, 1967]

Other Voices, with and orchestra (1957), Columbia CL1014

Mitch Miller

Soliloquy (1957), Columbia CL1060

Encores in Hi-Fi (1958), Columbia CL1141

Paris Impressions, Vol. 1 (1958), Columbia CL1212

Paris Impressions, Vol. 2 (1958), Columbia CL1213

The One and Only Erroll Garner (1960), Columbia C1452

Swinging Solos (1960), Columbia CL1512

The Provocative Erroll Garner (1961), Columbia CL1587

Dreamstreet (1961), 365

ABC-Paramount

Closeup in Swing (1961), ABC-Paramount 395

Informal Piano Improvisations (1962), Baronet B-109

One World Concert (1963), R9-6080

Reprise

A New Kind of Love: Erroll Garner with Full Orchestra, Conducted by (1963), Mercury SR-60859; Phillips BL 7595

Leith Stevens

Mr. Erroll Garner and the Trio (1964), Crown CLP-5404

Maxwell Davis

Serenade in Blue (1964), Clarion 610

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Amsterdam Concert (November 7, 1964), Philips BL 7717; Philips 632 204 BL

Erroll Garner Plays (1965), Ember FA 2011

Now Playing: A Night at the Movies (1965), SE-4335

MGM

Campus Concert (1966), MGM SE-4361

That's My Kick (1967), MGM SE-4463

Up in Erroll's Room (Featuring 'The Brass Bed') (1968), MGM SE-4520; Pye International NSPL.28123

Feeling is Believing (1970), Mercury SR-61308

Gemini (1972), XPS-617

London

Magician (1974), London APS-640

Play it Again, Erroll! (1975), Columbia PG-33424 (double album)

The Elf: The Savoy Sessions (1976), Savoy SJL-2207 (double album)

Erroll Garner Plays Gershwin & Kern (1976), Polydor [Fr] 2445 030; (1985), EmArcy 826 224

Yesterdays (1978), Savoy SJL-1118

Long Ago and Far Away (1987), Columbia CK-40863

Body & Soul (1991), Columbia CK-47035

Erroll Garner's Finest Hour (2003) Verve 589 775

The Complete Concert by the Sea (2015), Columbia/ 888751208421 (3-CD set)

Legacy

The Real...Erroll Garner (The Ultimate Collection) (2016), Sony Music 889853056323 (3-CD set)

(2016), Octave Music/Legacy 889853633128

Ready Take One

Nightconcert (2018),

Mack Avenue

“All Night Parking” (2021), Columbia/[Melted Stone], Adele ()

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Personal life[edit]

Garner did not marry, but fathered a daughter, Kim Garner, who is interviewed in No One Can Hear You Read.[15]

at AllMusic

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