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Erroll Garner: Erroll Garner Plays Gershwin & Kern
by Chris May
The British newspaper The Times once nailed Abdullah Ibrahim's appeal thus: There are few musicians in jazz who can make you feel that essentially all is right in the world." The late Erroll Garner is another pianist whose music could be similarly described. You might argue that Ibrahim's task is harder, because much of his work deals with painful issues, while the ebullient Garner mostly played feelgood material from the Great American Songbook. But Garner's palette brought its own challenges, ...
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