Erroll Garner - In Performance

Starring:Erroll Garner, Kelly Martin, Eddie Calhoun
Studio: White Star
Product Type: DVD

Editorial Review:
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Pianist Erroll Garner's sheer ebullience, virtuoso technique, and endless flow of ideas are all on hand in these two 1964 performances (totaling 72 minutes) taken from the archives of the BBC. Although players like Bill Evans and McCoy Tyner were moving jazz piano in entirely new directions by that time, Garner's jaunty, florid playing, with its elements of ragtime, stride, and other old-fashioned styles, seems to exist in another world. It's an entertaining world, though, as he makes his way through a repertoire consisting largely of standards like "Just One of Those Things," "Laura," "Lover," "Honeysuckle Rose," and such, most of them featuring Garner's inimitably imaginative introductions. However, although he wrote the tune, he won't play "Misty" for you; that classic appears here only as an audio-only bonus track, an inexplicable move roughly akin to Tony Bennett not singing "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" or Tiny Tim foregoing "Tiptoe Through the Tulips." --Sam Graham

Average customer rating:

a conversion experience

A COMPLETE MUST HAVE!!

Garner the Giant of Jazz

Erroll Garner - In Performance

Errol Garner - In Performance

Erroll Garner - In Performance
Starring: Erroll Garner , Kelly Martin , and Eddie Calhoun
Manufacturer: White Star
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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Release Date: 2002-07-01

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Pianist Erroll Garner's sheer ebullience, virtuoso technique, and endless flow of ideas are all on hand in these two 1964 performances (totaling 72 minutes) taken from the archives of the BBC. Although players like Bill Evans and McCoy Tyner were moving jazz piano in entirely new directions by that time, Garner's jaunty, florid playing, with its elements of ragtime, stride, and other old-fashioned styles, seems to exist in another world. It's an entertaining world, though, as he makes his way through a repertoire consisting largely of standards like "Just One of Those Things," "Laura," "Lover," "Honeysuckle Rose," and such, most of them featuring Garner's inimitably imaginative introductions. However, although he wrote the tune, he won't play "Misty" for you; that classic appears here only as an audio-only bonus track, an inexplicable move roughly akin to Tony Bennett not singing "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" or Tiny Tim foregoing "Tiptoe Through the Tulips." --Sam Graham

Customer Reviews:

a conversion experience.......2007-05-28

Earlier reviews well describe this CD and Erroll's playing but what I would like to add is that I think I first realized there had to be a divine consciousness after watching the second track, 'Dreamy' - for how else could such extraordinary beauty of human creation exist? Even after many watchings I will still cry with this track, or with the version of 'Misty' provided against photographic stills. Erroll doesn't look at his hands as he plays - he doesn't need to; he looks up and around, channelling music from the heavens - a master!

A COMPLETE MUST HAVE!!.......2007-05-08

Wow, Wow, Wow!!! Goodness Gracious! What an awesome performance by a piano virtuoso. This has to be on my list of must see Piano concerts on DVD. The sound is quality is surprisingly good! I especially love watching Erroll Garner from the side camera view where you can see him work all those piano chords and progressions!
Watching this in black and white I think adds to the mood of an era gone by, a musical era that we all can fall in love with!

Garner the Giant of Jazz.......2007-04-29

This is a must buy for any Jazz fan. Licenced by the BBC for release in the U.S. but not available over in the UK, you get two sets of Garner with bass player Eddie Calhoun and drummer Kelly Martin. Even more amazing is that when the BBC repeated Jazz 625 in the 1980's they only showed one half the show. This disc contains both halves.

As you'd expect the playing from Garner is incredible. Take 'Honeysuckle Rose' as an example. A long introduction, during which the drummer and bass player have no idea when they are supposed to come in. This features a little bit of Boogie Woogie and stride and then suddenly the tune starts and Garner is flying. The distinctive lagging right hand spells out the tune and then there are a few choruses of sparking improvisations. Then to cap it all a long stride section recalling memories of Fats Waller and culminating in a modulation through multiple keys to the finish.

Garner alternates between his uptempo swinging stuff (or occasional mambo style) with his distinctively florid ballad playing, which creates a nice contrast. The picture quality is reasonable for 1964, and the sound is pretty good. There is a bonus audio only version of Misty played over some photos of Garner performing elsewhere.

Buy it now before it becomes completely unavailable.

Erroll Garner - In Performance.......2007-03-09

I'm a Garnerfan from Denmark. It is a great pleasure to see and listend to Mr. Garner. I love the way he plays piano. But I have a dream. In Amsterdam Garner made a concert "Garner at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw" (may be in the end of 1960 or early 1970). I have this concert on a LP-record for grammofon. I would like to hear, that this concert is published om cd-record og dvd-record. I hope. It was a fantastic concert.

Errol Garner - In Performance.......2007-03-09

If you are a fan of the Errol Garner style, this is a must have! Have played it several times and still in awe of his piano style.

This is definitely a keeper

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