In 1955, jazz pianist Erroll Garner played a concert in Carmel, Calif. When his manager spotted a tape recorder rolling backstage, she grabbed the reels and decided to release them. The sound was ...

Erroll Garner (1921-1977). Garner conceived of “Misty” — his most famous song — while on a DC-3 lumbering over Chicago in 1954. The clouds were beautiful and misty on that flight, and a classic was ...

Julius LaRosa sent a reminiscence. This quote from Wikipedia: “Garner was self-taught and remained an 'ear player' all his life - he never learned to read music." A hundred years ago we shared a bill ...

The passage of time has the tendency to render even the most superbly talented artists mute. Tastes change, fashions fall out of vogue, and our attention gradually becomes redirected. But on rare ...

The late jazz pianist spins out new and old melodies and cracks little musical jokes on a new series of reissues representing albums he recorded for various labels between '59 and '73. This is FRESH ...

Most people's appreciation for Erroll Garner begins and ends with Concert By The Sea (Columbia, 1955), the pianist's career-defining performance for an audience of U.S. Infantrymen at the Sunset ...

Erroll Garner, the effervescent and boundlessly inventive jazz pianist and composer, died more than 40 years ago, at the age of 55. A household name and major concert attraction in his prime, he has ...

As the release of Adele’s fourth studio album 30 draws ever closer, fresh details about the hotly anticipated record have finally begun to emerge. The latest announcement about the Grammy-winner’s ...