Search results for "Erroll Garner"

Erroll Garner: Frantonality (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music January 12, 09

Garner’s style was mostly based on a chomping 4/4 in the left hand more related to rhythm guitar than James P. Johnso...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ETHAN IVERSON ON STRIDE PIANO

Editor's Note: Music fans, jazz-oriented or otherwise, may know Ethan Iverson solely as the pianist in The Bad Plus—t...

Erroll Garner: Love Walked In (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music August 20, 08

Calling the solo piano section that begins this track an "introduction" is a great disservice to Erroll Garner. The t...

Erroll Garner: Strike Up the Band (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music August 20, 08

Here, as he so often did, Erroll Garner performs a seemingly unrelated introduction. Punchy, dissonant, deceptively o...

Erroll Garner: That Old Black Magic (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music August 19, 08

Mambo Moves Garner was Erroll Garner's first recording with a conga player. For this arrangement of the popular Harol...

Erroll Garner: Misty (1954) (Rating: 99/100) posted in Music October 29, 07

        Erroll Garner and Art Tatum at Birdland, 1952           ...

Erroll Garner: Penthouse Serenade – as heard in Woody Allen's Mighty Aphrodite (1995) (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music November 18, 07

One mark of a great jazz artist is the ability to make a standard his or her own. By that yardstick, and by any other...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: THE JAZZ SIDE OF WOODY ALLEN

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Erroll Garner: Stormy Weather (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music November 21, 07

Erroll Garner didn't invent octave tremolos in jazz—fellow Pittsburgher Earl Hines gets credit for that. But Garner c...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: STORMY WEATHER

Ethel Waters induced "Stormy Weather" in 1933 at the Cotton Club, an oasis of prosperity in Depression- era Harlem wh...

Erroll Garner: I'll Remember April (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music May 10, 08

Erroll Garner's Concert by the Sea was one of the most popular piano trio albums of the era, and was also heard widel...

Erroll Garner: 7-11 Jump (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music August 19, 08

This is Erroll Garner at his swinging best. His orchestral approach to the piano is on full display, chorus after cho...

Erroll Garner: Theme from A New Kind of Love (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music August 20, 08

Released in 1963, the comedic film A New Kind of Love, starring Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, featured original co...

Erroll Garner: Summertime (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music July 30, 08

Erroll Garner's Columbia version of "Summertime" sounds like a playful romp, but there is a lot of musical substance ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: SUMMERTIME

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Erroll Garner: Don't Be That Way (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music October 29, 07

People often marveled at how well he played, considering that he couldn’t read music. To which Erroll Garner pointed ...

Erroll Garner: Lover (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music November 21, 07

Fans of post-1960 jazz piano trios might be shocked to find that previously such groups weren't wildly egalitarian gy...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE GREAT LOVERS

Jazz has always relied on popular songs to connect quickly with an audience. In return, jazz has helped keep alive ...

Erroll Garner: St. Louis Blues (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music August 19, 08

Erroll Garner fans may take that steady left-hand chording for granted. On this recording, Garner varies his left-han...

Erroll Garner: I've Got to Be a Rugcutter (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music August 19, 08

The contrast between Erroll Garner's left and right hands sometimes creates the aural illusion of two separate tempos...

Erroll Garner: April in Paris (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music November 11, 07

        Erroll Garner and Art Tatum at Birdland, 1952           ...

Erroll Garner: Yesterdays (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music August 19, 08

While his trio arrangements typically included a solo piano introduction, "Yesterdays" (originally from the 1933 Broa...

Erroll Garner: She's Funny That Way (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music August 19, 08

Early in his New York City performance career, Erroll Garner substituted for Art Tatum in Tatum's trio with Slam Stew...

Erroll Garner: The Best Things in Life Are Free (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music August 20, 08

This composition premiered on September 6, 1927, as part of the Broadway show Good News. In 1961 Erroll Garner was in...

Erroll Garner: It's All Right with Me (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music August 19, 08

Partly attributed to his well-documented inability to read music, Erroll Garner's pianistic voice is one of the most ...

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