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. Do not reproduce without permission.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 celebrates the 60th Anniversary of the original concert from September 19, 1955. © 2021 The Classical Arts, All rights reserved. This is why the Erroll Garner Jazz Project, headed by the estate of Martha Glaser, is set to release more unheard gems like this.

(He was too much a populist for ground breaking.) Still, there are those who say his immediately recognizable originality puts him in a league with Art Tatum and Oscar Peterson. The first jazz piano player to give a solo Carnegie Hall performance (1959), Garner was never an actual pioneer like Monk.

In fact, the title of this collection stems from Glaser's traditional exhortation just prior to the tape rolling ('Ready? Take One!') Garner is clearly in high spirits, trilling, rolling, releasing his inner Debussy as well as his inner Fats Waller.ĭuring his all-too-short life (he had a heart attack during complications from emphysema), Erroll Garner was not only Johnny Carson's favorite jazz artist-amassing 27 Tonight Show appearances-but was as popular abroad as he was at home. Most fascinating are the snippets of studio banter between the pianist (known for audibly grunting as he plays) and his longtime manager/friend Martha Glaser. All 14 have been restored after almost a half-century collecting dust in the Erroll Garner Archive, housed within the University of Pittsburgh (his home town). Recorded in '67, '69 and '71 with two drummers and four bassists (depending upon the track), Garner delightfully interprets the Bobby Hebb hit 'Sonny,' two slices of Ellingtonia ('Caravan' and 'Satin Doll'), two from Cole Porter ('Night and Day' and 'Stella By Starlight'), his own 'Misty' (updated with a new recording from Paris) and the aforementioned six 'new' originals. Word has it, there's plenty more to come. Hot on the heels of Erroll Garner's #1 jazz-chart topper, The Complete Concert by the Sea, the legendary pianist/composer, who died in 1977 at the age of 53, has a brand new CD out, Ready Take One (Legacy/Octave), filled with all unreleased tracks, six of which are previously unheard originals. The legendary Erroll Garner, dead for 39 years, has a new CD out of never-before-heard material.

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