Marking Legendary Golden-Age Pianist Erroll Garner's Centennial
Prodigal pianist and composer Erroll Garner, whose centennial birthday will be marked in September. 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 recently regained a measure of cultural cachet thanks to the Erroll Garner Project, which made a splash five years ago with an expanded rerelease of Garner's landmark album, Concert By the Sea. Nightconcert, a live album from 1964 [ Disclosure: An album for which I wrote liner notes]; the Octave Re...
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