• 180 gram VIRGIN VINYL
• THE COMPLETE LP + 1 BONUS TRACK
• LIMITED EDITION

The complete original Erroll Garner album Concert by the Sea, which marked the pianist’s best-selling record ever. The album was taped on September 19, 1955 in the gothic-revivalist styled assembly hall of Sunset School (now Sunset Arts Center) in Carmel-bythe-Sea, California.

Accompanying Garner were bassist Eddie Calhoun and drummer Denzil Best. There was no plan to record the concert officially. The release came about because Garner’s personal manager, Martha Glaser, spotted that a tape recorder was running backstage and decided to use the tape, originally intended for the Armed Forces Radio Network.

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.

PERSONNEL:

ERROLL GARNER - (piano)
EDDIE CALHOUN - (bass)
DENZIL BEST - (drums)

Live in Carmel, California, September 19, 1955.

TRACKS:

A1. I’LL REMEMBER APRIL
A2. TEACH ME TONIGHT
A3. MAMBO CARMEL
A4. AUTUMN LEAVES
A5. IT’S ALL RIGHT WITH ME

B1. RED TOP
B2. APRIL IN PARIS
B3. THEY CAN’T TAKE THAT AWAY FROM ME
B4. HOW COULD YOU DO A THING LIKE THAT TO ME
B5. WHERE OR WHEN
B6. ERROLL’S THEME
B7. MISTY (*)

(*) BONUS TRACK: Same personnel.
Live at Basin Street, New York, May 5, 1956