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Concert By the Sea | 
| Artist: Erroll Garner
Label: Sony Jazz
Category: Music
List Price: £8.99
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Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 22150
Format: Live
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
EAN: 5099745104222
ASIN: B00002684W
Release Date: March 12, 2001
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| Tracks:
| • | I'll Remember April | | • | Teach Me Tonight | | • | Mambo Carmel | | • | Autumn Leaves | | • | It's All Right With Me | | • | Red Top | | • | April In Paris | | • | They Can't That That Away From Me | | • | How Could You Do A Thing Like That To Me | | • | Where Or When | | • | Erroll's Theme |
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| Customer Reviews:
Erroll (The Elf) Garner at his very best. December 23, 2007
Distinctive to the point of being instantly recognisable, that's Errol Garner, and here he is, caught in full flight at the very peak of his powers, and 'live' too. There have been many concert recordings succesfully transferred to disc, making one realise that it would have been a memorable treat to have been in the audience, and what we have here is no exception. Erroll was a natural, and supposedly couldn't read a note of music. When you can play like this, you dont need to. Anyone who wants just one of Erroll's recordings wont do better than this. Anyone alive out there, who was in the audience the night this was reccorded??
Errol Garner's Jazz August 16, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Errol Garner is almost unique in Jazz history in the way that he created a new style of playing his instrument, the Piano, which made him very successful (for a Jazz artist) but hardly any other musicians have copied his style. In fact there is only one other Pianist that I know of that conciously learnt to play in the style of Errol Garner and that was Dudley Moore (and he did it very well). There are a number of reasons for this, which would take too long to explain in a short album review.
On this fabulous live album from September 1955 Garner is accompanied by Eddie Calhoun on bass and Denzil Best on Drums. As with all Garner recordings there are his inspired Piano introductions to tunes, that really give you absolutely no clue as to what is coming next, but when the tune starts it all seem entirely logical.
Garner was wholly self-taught, so how on earth he managed to play at the virtuoso standard required on say 'Red Top' or 'I'll Remember April' is truly amazing. The key to his playing is the left-hand which is squarely on the beat, and 4 to the bar on the uptempo numbers, almost like a strumming guitarist - think Freddie Green from the Basie Orchestra. His right hand lagged behind the beat, or phrased around the beat which creates the dramatic style you can hear so well on this album.
I'm less keen on his ballad playing, its a little too florid for my taste, but its still fabulous, just not as fabulous as his uptempo playing which is as exciting as almost anythingelse you can hear in the history of Jazz.
Erroll Garner's 'Concert By The Sea' - The legend's musical masterpiece..... August 1, 2006
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
If I were asked to compile a list my all-time favourite albums this would be in the top five, and it wouldn't be a short list! Recorded almost a year to the day after I was born, it is difficult to put into words what this album means to me. My Dad had an old Telefunken radiogram and a limited number of albums to play, but even though my age was still in single figures, somehow I quickly became mesmerised by the truly unique Garner style. The first copy we had was on the Philips label, but it wasn't until many years later when I bought a replacement copy on CBS (Sony) that I realised that great lumps of the original recording had been edited out, so much so that on playing the replacement copy for the first time, I thought that extra tracks had been added, only to find that these were the original off-the-wall and rambling intro's that Garner is quite rightly famed for. I don't understand how or why they work, they just do!
About ten years ago I purchased the CD, and I am pleased to say that this album is still as thrilling a listen today as it was in my very early days of listening. This great man can go from melancholy to majestic in four bars, and make goosepimples come up on my arms and the hair on the back of my neck stand up barely a moment after his fingers have touched the keyboard.
Aside from this, generally speaking I don't like live albums, but this is the exception to the rule. Forget the slightly poor recording quality, (It is fifty plus years old after all!), the background interruptions and coughing from the audience plus Garner's own grunts and humming that accompany a great deal of the recording, this is one hell of an album and one that I can truly say that I would be lost without.
The musicianship on this album is superb, the interaction between Garner, the audience and his fellow musicians magnificent and the atmosphere electric. You only have to listen to the reaction of the audience to realise that we are witnessing something very special. Lie back and enjoy a sprightly and intriguing selection of tunes from a jazz master at the very peak of his career on this truly magical album.
Very highly recommended.
Garner at his best - a true genius November 27, 2005
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
I orginally just gave this CD a cursory listen, not expecting anything special, however I was blown away and just had to keep on listening and listening.Garner had an unbeliveable talent, both for his instrument, and the art of performance. He uses an endless variety of styles that he seamlessly flits between mid solo, from puncuating staccato of individual notes to full on orchestral rolling chords. He is truely a showman of the highest order as well, constantly generating interest and drama in the music, and creating a huge sense of fun. The recording quality is a bit dodgy, but this is quickly forgotten when listening. His other major album 'Contrasts' is also excellent, though not in quite the same league as this legendary concert.
 This represents Errol Garner at the heigth of his career. October 6, 2001
14 out of 18 found this review helpful
This is a must have for any lover of Errol Garner, jazz piano or great popular music.Here we have Garner swinging in his own inimitable style with a live audience and both loving every minute of it. Classics such as "April in Paris", "Its all right with me" and "Teach me Tonight" are given the rolling, two handed piano treatment and demonstrate Garners ability to take good music and make it even better. I defy anyone to listen to this CD and not end up tapping their feet, whistleing the tune and generally feeling that they have heard one of the greatest interpretors of popular music ever born.
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