Results for "Erroll Garner"

Mark Murphy: Inside the Mystery

by Suzanne Lorge
July 31, 2009

Beyond its stylistic differentiators, jazz contains what vocalist Mark Murphy calls “a wonderful mystery," a mystery that was fostered in small, regional clubs around the US during the '30s-40s, when Murphy was developing the distinctive vocal style that launched his decades-long career. “I've seen this mysterious quality of jazz set rooms on fire," Murphy ...

Peter Nero: Fabled Pianist and Philly POPS Maestro

by Victor L. Schermer
July 8, 2009

Living legend Peter Nero is that rare musician equally at home with classical music, jazz, the American Songbook, the Broadway musical, movie themes and popular songs. Moreover, he is a masterful pianist, seasoned conductor, composer and arranger in all these genres. Just as exceptionally, he has become a cultural emblem, known to statesmen, entertainers, students, housewives ...

Jazz Musician of the Day: Erroll Garner

June 15, 2009

All About Jazz is celebrating Erroll Garner's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Erroll GarnerBorn in Pittsburgh in 1921 (Sy Johnson\'s biographical note in The Erroll Garner Songbook has June 15, 1923 as Garner\'s birthdate), Errol Garner started playing piano at the age of two (three according to ...

Take Five With Marc Brenken

by AAJ Staff
May 21, 2009

Meet Marc Brenken:Marc Brenken (born June 17th, 1973) started to play piano at the age of eight and has constantly been developing his own musical language since his studies at the Folkwang Academy of music in Essen, Germany. In 2006 his debut cd eight short stories (with his quartet featuring trumpeter Christian Kappe) was ...

Wynton Marsalis with Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra at the Kimmel Center

by Victor L. Schermer
March 26, 2009

Jazz at Lincoln Center OrchestraWynton Marsalis, Music DirectorThe Kimmel Center for the Performing ArtsMarch 20, 2009 Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra made a return visit to the Kimmel Center with a full-house crowd on hand and an early Spring March wind in the air. Marsalis quickly indicated the ...

Moonglow

By Erroll Garner

Label: Mercury
Released: 2008

One Note Samba

Featuring the music of Erroll Garner
Duration: 4:59
June 15, 2007

1953

By Erroll Garner

Label: Classics
Released: 2006
Track listing: Caravan; Lullaby of Birdland; Cheek to Cheek; Once in a While; Will You Still Be Mine?; Blue Ecstacy; Avalon; Lullaby in Rhythm; St. Louis Blues; My Ideal; Stompin' at the Savoy; Sweet Sue - Just You; Easy to Love; Mean to Me; I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm; Love for Sale.

Erroll Garner: 1953

by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
March 26, 2006

Listening to an Erroll Garner record is, for me, a little like the first time I drank mezcal, a distilled liquor made from the agave plant--with a worm in the bottle--in Oaxaca, Mexico. An initial sharp and soaring euphoria, unique among the alcoholic beverages, immediately followed by an equally sharp, crushing headache accompanied by nausea. The ...

Erroll Garner: Concert By The Sea

by C. Michael Bailey
August 9, 2005

Erroll Garner Concert By The Sea Columbia 40589 1955 In the same way that the former St. Louis Cardinal/Atlanta Brave Terry Pendleton demonstrated that a fat man could play most-valuable-player in baseball, Erroll Garner showed that one did not have to be able to read a note of music to ...