There’s no way Erroll Garner could have foretold, from his perch at the piano on a Monday evening almost exactly 60 years ago, that he was creating one of the most popular albums in jazz history. He probably didn’t even know tape was rolling.
But as he led his trio in a converted school auditorium in Carmel-by-the-Sea, Calif., Garner, 34, locked into a high creative gear, captivating an audience that wasn’t shy about showing its approval. “Everybody was so beautiful,” he said after the concert, which stretched past an hour and a half. Had there been a way to go longer, he added, “I would have been glad to, sincerely, because they made me feel like playing.”
“The Complete Concert by the Sea,” a new three-CD boxed set from Sony Legacy and Octave Music Publishing, greatly expands and improves on the original album. Produced by Ms. Geri Allen and Steve Rosenthal, it includes 11 previously unissued tracks from the concert — doubling the amount of music — along with long introductions by the promoter, Jimmy Lyons, and that postgame interview by Thornbury. A windfall and in some ways a revelation, the boxed set is just the first sign of a major archival effort around Garner that seems likely to raise his stature in the jazz pantheon, and to reaffirm his place in the lineage of jazz pianists.
But as he led his trio in a converted school auditorium in Carmel-by-the-Sea, Calif., Garner, 34, locked into a high creative gear, captivating an audience that wasn’t shy about showing its approval. “Everybody was so beautiful,” he said after the concert, which stretched past an hour and a half. Had there been a way to go longer, he added, “I would have been glad to, sincerely, because they made me feel like playing.”
Album: The Complete Concert By The Sea (Disc 1)
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 59:47
Size: 136.9 MB
Styles: Piano jazz
Year: 2015
[0:37] 1. Announcement (Jimmy Lyons)
[5:04] 2. Night And Day
[5:13] 3. Spring Is Here
[4:23] 4. I'll Remember April
[4:45] 5. The Nearness Of You
[3:22] 6. Where Or When
[4:12] 7. Sweet And Lovely
[4:17] 8. Lullaby Of Birdland
[3:52] 9. Mambo Carmel
[3:48] 10. Teach Me Tonight
[3:56] 11. Will You Still Be Mine
[3:30] 12. I Cover The Waterfront
[4:37] 13. Bernie's Tune
[4:15] 14. How Could You Do A Thing Like That To Me
[3:49] 15. It's All Right With Me
The Complete Concert By The Sea (Disc 1)
Album: The Complete Concert By The Sea (Disc 2)
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 41:05
Size: 94.1 MB
Styles: Piano jazz
Year: 2015
[2:47] 1. 2nd Announcement (Jimmy Lyons)
[4:18] 2. They Can't Take That Away From Me
[6:40] 3. Autumn Leaves
[2:39] 4. S'wonderful
[6:03] 5. Laura
[3:28] 6. Red Top
[4:55] 7. April In Paris
[7:42] 8. Caravan
[2:29] 9. Erroll's Theme
The Complete Concert By The Sea (Disc 2)
Album: The Complete Concert By The Sea (Disc 3)
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 57:58
Size: 132.7 MB
Styles: Piano jazz
Year: 2015
Art: Front
[ 4:22] 1. I'll Remember April
[ 3:42] 2. Teach Me Tonight
[ 3:54] 3. Mambo Carmel
[ 6:33] 4. Autumn Leaves
[ 3:31] 5. It's All Right With Me
[ 3:23] 6. Red Top
[ 4:55] 7. April In Paris
[ 4:15] 8. They Can't Take That Away From Me
[ 4:14] 9. How Could You Do A Thing Like That To Me
[ 3:11] 10. Where Or When
[ 1:45] 11. Erroll's Theme
[14:08] 12. Post Concert Interview
The Complete Concert By The Sea (Disc 3)
Many many thanks @mat.tiggas for that post. The piano style of Erroll Garner is very fascinating !
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