Erroll Garner

This album –Erroll Garner’s first live concert to ever enter the market– was one of the pianist’s most acclaimed and best selling recordings from the moment of its release. The combination between Erroll Garner’s and the audience’s enthusiasm certainly makes it a lively listening experience. Recorded after his reputation was already firmly established, this LP was made in a beautiful coastline area in an auditorium that had formerly been a church, with excellent acoustics.
As a complement to this exciting concert, however, we have included another live Garner performance, recorded a few years later, at Seattle’s World’s Fair, on August 20-25, 1963. He is featured once again in a trio setting, and the bass player is –as in the case of the 1955 concert– Eddie Calhoun. Kelly Martin is on drums here instead of Denzil Best. A jewel from this second performance is a live version of Garner’s most celebrated composition: “Misty”, which you can compare to the original 1954 studio version, added as a final bonus at the end of the CD.

PERSONNEL:

ERROLL GARNER, piano on all tracks, plus:

(1-11): Concert by the Sea:
Eddie Calhoun (bass), Denzil Best (drums).
Carmel, California, September 19, 1955.

*Bonus tracks:
(12-19): Eddie Calhoun (bass), Kelly Martin (drums). World’s Fair, Seattle, August 20-25, 1963.
(20): Wyatt Ruther (bass), Eugene Heard (drums). Chicago, July 27, 1954.

TRACKS:

01) I’LL REMEMBER APRIL 4:19
02) TEACH ME TONIGHT 3:42
03) MAMBO CARMEL 3:53
04) AUTUMN LEAVES 6:31
05) IT’S ALL RIGHT WITH ME 3:30
06) RED TOP 3:22
07) APRIL IN PARIS 4:55
08) THEY CAN’T TAKE THAT AWAY FROM ME 4:14
09) HOW COULD YOU DO A THING LIKE THAT TO ME? 4:13
10) WHERE OR WHEN 3:11
11) ERROLL’S THEME 1:46
12) THE WAY YOU LOOK TONIGHT 4:02*
13) HAPPINESS IS A THING CALLED JOE 5:10*
14) SWEET AND LOVELY 5:35*
15) MACK THE KNIFE 4:26*
16) LOVER COME BACK 4:07*
17) MISTY 4:56*
18) DANCING TAMBOURINE 1:30*
19) THANKS FOR THE MEMORY 1:13*
20) MISTY 2:49*

TOTAL TIME: 78:00