Erroll Garner
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Official account of renowned jazz pianist. Follow for exclusive content from the Erroll Garner Project. Liberation in Swing available now!
Joined February 2014
"I play what I feel. At a record session, I shut my eyes and I feel an audience. You always go with the people" - Erroll Garner
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Erroll Garner on the cover of the June 1962 issue of British magazine Jazz Journal. This was Garner's second Jazz Journal cover feature of 1962, also appearing on the January cover.
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Erroll Garner's Nightconcert was released five years ago today! Recorded during a midnight concert at the Royal Concertgebouw in Amsterdam in 1964, Nightconcert was mixed and restored from new transfers of the original 3-track analog tapes found in Garner’s personal archive.
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In July of 1961, Garner recorded a number of songs that would end up on his 'Closeup In Swing' album. "Garner is an institution....that quickness of thought, that turn of a phrase, that delicacy in interpretation, can only happen once in a century."–London Music Mirror, c.1961
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Only 10 days until the first Ready Take One double vinyl giveaway winner is announced! Enter now to to be included in all twelve monthly drawings. Open to USA residents only. Click here to enter: https://t.co/XF3VBIqxiN Photo by Chuck Stewart.
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"Erroll epitomized all that makes jazz the great music of our age. He was a natural and his music communicated to those who knew nothing of the meaning of jazz." - George Wein (1977)
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Erroll Garner, George Shearing, and Louis Armstrong at Lewisohn Stadium in Harlem, NY. The three musicians were featured artists during the 2nd Annual Jazz Jamboree on July 6th, 1957.
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...the artists & songwriters who carry on the traditions he helped pioneer. More people heard Garner’s music in the past year than any year before it, and that is the greatest gift he could have asked for. Thank you all for continuing to support his legacy. There is more to come!
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Happy Birthday, Erroll Garner! 102 years ago today the world got a little brighter. Garner’s contributions to music and culture continue to stretch out in all directions today thanks to the fans who listen to his records and...
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Producer George Avakian remarked, "It's amazing, but the orchestra sounds like we now have two of Garner; as if he has another voice." (2/2)
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66 years ago today, Erroll Garner wrapped the final recording session for his album, Other Voices. The album features Garner leading an orchestra through his own arrangements of a mix of standards and original tunes. (1/2)
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"Garner is the only musician I know who can make a room or concert hall vibrate with laughter not at him but with him, and in purely musical terms; it is something very, very special." - Dan Morgenstern
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From the Erroll Garner archives: a British souvenir programme, sold for two shillings and six pence.
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"I just play what I feel. Suddenly I hit a groove that moves me, and then I take off. I don't worry about how it'll come out." – Erroll Garner as quoted in Time Magazine, 1952 (Photo by Dennis Stock)
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Koner was known for his photography work with some of the most important 20th century artists including Garner, Johnny Cash, and Miles Davis. His photographs are in the permanent collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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A photo of Erroll by photographer Marvin Koner. This photo was used for the cover of "Erroll Garner" (Columbia, 1953), which features Wyatt Ruther on bass and Eugene "Fats" Heard on drums.
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Erroll arriving for a European tour stop in Paris in 1958. In an interview, Erroll said that Europe has the "earliest newspaper men and camera men in the world." They would greet him at the airport, no matter how early his plane got in. Photo by Jean-Pierre Leloir.
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The first time was the French Lick Jazz Festival in Indiana on Aug 15, 1958. Wein brought the pair back together the next year for the premiere night of the 1959 Newport Jazz Festival. Here are the two legends hanging out backstage. (2/2)
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Happy Birthday to Duke Ellington! Duke Ellington and Erroll Garner had a great mutual respect and admiration for each other’s talents. Promoter George Wein had the two share the stage twice. (1/2)
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“Garner has written several original [compositions] for the occasion and is also flying in Candido, world-famous bongo player from Cuba, to appear with him on the program. The two will collaborate on mambo rhythms, playing together in public for the first time.” - Amsterdam News
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