Erroll Louis Garner was an American jazz pianist and composer known for his swing playing and ballads. His best-known composition, the ballad "Misty", has become a jazz standard. Scott Yanow of Allmusic calls him "one of the most distinctive of all pianists" and a "brilliant virtuoso."
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- Oct 13, 2022
8:54 AMErroll Garner's Concert by the Sea happened 67 years ago today! There was no plan to record the concert officially. The release came about because Garner's personal manager, Martha Glaser, spotted backstage that a tape recorder was running. The recording was being made by a recording engineer for the Armed Forces Radio Network, "a jazz fan and scholar named Will Thornbury, strictly for the enjoyment of himself and his fellow servicemen". Glaser took the tape, put it into album form, and then played it for the head of Columbia Records' jazz division, George Avakian, who decided to release it. It sold by the truckload.John Richards - Apr 18, 2012
19:06 PMCheck this vid "Century 21 Calling" -- images from inside the Bell System Pavilion at the Fair! www.youtube.com