Music CD - Erroll Garner: Concert by the Sea

	Music CD: Concert by the Sea Artist: Erroll Garner List Price: $11.98 Our Price: $6.04 Your Save: $ 5.94 ( 50% ) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Manufacturer: Sony
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Tracks: 1. I'll Remember April 2. Teach Me Tonight 3. Mambo Carmel 4. Autumn Leaves 5. It's All Right With Me 6. Red Top 7. April In Paris 8. They Can't Take That Away From Me 9. How Could You Do A Thing Like That To Me 10. Where Or When 11. Erroll's Theme
Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0074644058925 Format: Live Label: Sony Manufacturer: Sony Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Sony Release Date: 1990-10-25 Studio: Sony
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Superb piano jazz Comment: Ok, the sound's thin and distant. Other than that, this couldn't be much better. One of the greats at his greatest, this belongs beside the very best of Powell, Shearing, Peterson, Tatum, and Evans. High praise but not hyperbole; Erroll has The Touch, and imagination for days. Autumn Leaves is almost hilariously florid and supple; he's not afraid to unwind all the way. No one else ever played that chestnut quite like this... If there's a jazz bar in heaven, Garner takes the happy hour shift. Customer Rating: Summary: Erroll Garner's Jazz Comment: Errol Garner is almost unique in Jazz history in the way that he created a new style of playing his instrument, the Piano, which made him very successful (for a Jazz artist) but hardly any other musicians have copied his style. In fact there is only one other Pianist that I know of that conciously learnt to play in the style of Errol Garner and that was Dudley Moore (and he did it very well). There are a number of reasons for this, which would take too long to explain in a short album review. On this fabulous live album from September 1955 Garner is accompanied by Eddie Calhoun on bass and Denzil Best on Drums. As with all Garner recordings there are his inspired Piano introductions to tunes, that really give you absolutely no clue as to what is coming next, but when the tune starts it all seem entirely logical. Garner was wholly self-taught, so how on earth he managed to play at the virtuoso standard required on say 'Red Top' or 'I'll Remember April' is truly amazing. The key to his playing is the left-hand which is squarely on the beat, and 4 to the bar on the uptempo numbers, almost like a strumming guitarist - think Freddie Green from the Basie Orchestra. His right hand lagged behind the beat, or phrased around the beat which creates the dramatic style you can hear so well on this album. I'm less keen on his ballad playing, its a little too florid for my taste, but its still fabulous, just not as fabulous as his uptempo playing which is as exciting as almost anythingelse you can hear in the history of Jazz. Customer Rating: Summary: Dear B. Cotgrove... Comment: George Shearing is good too, but this is an Erroll Garner CD. This record is great; read the other reviews for all the info. Customer Rating: Summary: The top piano jazz album of the 20th century Comment: Erroll is at his classic best in this album. This is jazz as jazz creativity was given us by the divine. Customer Rating: Summary: Great Music, Poor Recording Comment: Sometimes the "old sound" becomes part of the charm of an old recording. But this performance is just poorly handled, a shame since it was a wonderful concert. Get it for the music, but don't expect it to sound good. More Reviews
Editorial Reviews: The sound is atrocious and the piano is out of tune, yet this live trio recording from September 9, 1955, in Carmel, California, was a bestselling album. Garner brings a wealth of imagination to every performance of every song. On uptempo numbers like "I'll Remember April" and "Red Top" he hammers away with intense left-handed figures while unleashing relentless cascades of improvised lines with his right. On ballads like "Teach Me Tonight" and "April in Paris" he plays with the softest of touches, changing tempo from verse to verse for dramatic effect. His performance of "Autumn Leaves" is so over-the-top it could have gone to parody, but not in the hands of this master entertainer. His humming, grunting vocal accompaniment--he seems to be commenting on "They Can't Take That Away from Me" as he plays it--provides a kind of side show to the performance. More than 30 years later it's still starkly original work. --John Swenson