Liberace Misty (Erroll Garner)

[te98250]

Personally, anybody who includes Jon England in a playlist loses all authority to comment on anything.

[MEpianist]

/watch?v=88b0DCEBLcU

[clkvlk]

who are you to call his interpretation horrible! what are your accomplishments? your compositions?

[airnsmke]

errol garner doesnt need the sound of seaguls added, if u listen closely you can hear them anyway

[clkvlk]

@airnsmke

it is called showmanship. Liberace doesn't need them either but it was a TV show and a nice visuality

[JRASpartypeople]

I remember ocean's eleven :p

[waggietoo]

asian american sing misty more please take a look

[curtalguy]

Where's Tippi Hedren when you need her??

[phenylphenol]

SEAGULLS! Best ever. This rocks so hard. I mean, for real, Liberace is a hell of a piano player. Just amazing. And so over the top. Brilliant. Erroll Garner and Liberace do completely different things well.

[aerofredywr]

It makes me appreciate more and more Errol Garner`s playing.

[Santosificationable]

Bobby Enriquez does a more creative rendition than this.

[timothystapay]

Lee is playing this as a romantic adaptation, NOT as a jazz arrangement. So it is just fine! That was his style. Liberace would have been an excellent pure classical pianist if he had wanted to be! He chose to be rich and famous and play to large audiences rather than be a poor classical musician playing for a few rich snobs!

[pianoplaylist]

@timothystapay I'll give you that. It's just fine because it is his romantic adaptation of the piece. Thanks for tuning in and chiming in.

[scabycat]

This is 1 of the most beautiful versions of misty I have ever come across. Do any of u who have posted negative comments know anything at all about music???

[pianoplaylist]

Ha! Ha!

[slapmyfunkybass]

nothing beats garner

[pianoplaylist]

@slapmyfunkybass I like Roger Williams' interpretation of this one. But millions of others agree with you. And of course, Garner is the prodigy who ingeniously contrived this complex melody with its intricate harmonies. Like Stardust, words were added a few years later. Its all very fascinating to me.

[guweck]

@slapmyfunkybass

I agree my friend. I need to tell you that I like Oscar Peterson´s version too.

[TrinidadPiano]

Can anyone tell me how Lee plays the two handed run starting at 0:10. I think it is a diminished chord, if so what would be the inversion- I really don't have a ear lol- Thanks

[HerbertReid]

Overplayed, but then it is Liberace whom in spite of all his excesses was still a good entertainer, Erroll 's is the best for me, did Chet Baker ever do this song ?

[RAREpicture]

At 1.42 he miss a note. In the score it's indicated : 5 birds have to fly over the interprete... Shame on you and Georges.

[conyelp]

(1 of 2)According to the Wikipedia web site Lee wound up doing what he did because he wanted to be an entertainer. He found he loved the interaction with the audience like taking requests, talking with the patrons, cracking jokes and giving lessons to chosen audience members.

[conyelp]

(2 of 2)He also started paying attention to staging, lighting, presentation and the way he dressed. He preferred this setting to the reality of the difficult competition in the classical piano world. And he did it so well, he was recognized at one time as the highest paid entertainer in the world.

[conyelp]

(1 of 2)Huh, up there under the picture you comment you think this is a horrible interpretation by Liberace. I guess it's just like beauty being in the eye of the beholder, I like Liberace's style. Maybe he does embelish this song a little more than he should but that's Liberace's style.

[conyelp]

(2 of 2)To me, no one plays this song the way it should be played but the writer, Errol Garner. And to me, no one sings it better than Johnny Mathis, he is my favorite singer in the world and I love to hear him sing his signture song, Misty. Thanks for this upload, I'll put it in my favorites, I wish Liberace was still here, never got to see him perform live.

[pianoplaylist]

Yes, it is! I'm happy that you like it. It gets a lot of views. I can't put my finger on it regarding why it doesn't sound right to me. It just doesn't have the soft, smooth, sexy, velvety sound that Misty has when it's performed as a jazz standard. Roger Williams plays it vastly different, and so does time0207. They just sound so much prettier. (1 man's opinion)

[slapmyfunkybass]

@pianoplaylist ...maybe with liberace it was too many notes.... garner let the music breathe, less is more... also, i have never heard garner play misty in the same key, i have a version he does in f sharp, two versions on here, one in a flat and the other in g... i think it was written in e flat though, which is what liberace plays it in... often garner would take the solo in double time as well

[pianoplaylist]

@slapmyfunkybass I didn't realize Garner played it in so many different keys. I can play in all the keys, but Misty I have only learned in E flat and F. It has some unusual chord changes.

[chkjns]

@pianoplaylist Even the birds are shrieking in horror . . . .

[alovesupreme71863]

I don't knwo what you mean by this being a horrible rendition. This is wonderful piano playing.

[t0oL1]

no candelabra on the piano?!!

[pianoplaylist]

@t0oL1 I hadn't noticed that until you said so. I don't know if I've ever seen any other performance of him without one. Good catch! BTW, I think this cheesy set is really stupid. Being "misty" in the sense of the song had nothing to do with cold and foggy saltwater beaches. I am mystified that such a good song by such a good performer could possibly be so "excruciating" as Simon would call it.

[mauricemonfils]

quelle daube!!!!

[pianoplaylist]

Vous êtes drôle! Habituellement, je serais vexé si quelqu'un dit quelque chose comme ça sur ma page, mais dans ce cas je suis d'accord avec vous!

[fontenayperi]

@mauricemonfils moi j'adore le bruit des mouettes!

[karun8236]

erroll garner's version would kick this cracker ass

[jfktwo]

Lee was an amazingly talented classical piano player but he decided to have fun with his talent and therefore he made a blazing fortune having fun so I could too listening to him.

[hiredguns1]

Liberace is a very good pianist (he meant to be a Classical pianist but realized somewhere along the way that he could never be good enough), but he is only a student compared to Horowitz, Rubinstein and Argerich. Listen to them and hear what I mean.

[Jigov]

what about Evgeny Kissin i think he is the best as we talk about Rachmaninov. I canot say Liberace is not good, but he is more like Intertainer type of musician, so i accept it like that. I dont compare him to thos guys that you mentioned.

[pianoplaylist]

I like Liberace's fun alternative renditions to classical pieces better than I like the originals. But then I like the heavy metal renditions of classical pieces sometimes too. I can see why you like Horowitz, Rubinstein and Argerich better. I was trained on classical piano for 7 years. It's okay if you're into it, but it's not my cup of tea. I would much rather have fun with the piano and classical pieces like Lee did. To each his own.

[chkjns]

@hiredguns1 - I recently read up on Liberace, there was just too much classical competition to compete with, so he created his own niche.

He knew how to market himself with absolute genius! He was an illusionist with the piano in a way. Many played better, but none other captured our interest as Lee did.

I appreciate your love of piano as a purist, but it is talent without compare that Lee made the piano appeal to nearly EVERYONE !!! And they heard the classics when they would not have!

[hiredguns1]

I agree with you... I also, am a big fan of Lieberace, growing up watching his 1/2 hour TV show in the 1950's and loving his theme song, "I'll Be Seeing You" every time! I'm also a Rock/CountryBlues/Folk bass guitarist for the last 40 years so I know about performance and his was always greater than the playing. That's show business!

[hiredguns1]

I also agree with you, because of his universal appeal, that he gave me a love of Classical music, especially Chopin that I might not otherwise have. I heard the Grande Polonaise first from his piano!

[Allotmenteer2]

love the gulls..they're just classic cheese..

[pianoplaylist]

Hah!

[peppersax]

The sea gulls should have been shot down! Liberace sounds good playing his version of Misty.

[mrobbins1925]

Ok Liberace is the best piano player in the history of the world. Since we dont have any recordings of Chopin or Bach or anyone like that. But this is just a personal thing i have always like Liberace

[Tangerinemustang]

i could have done with out jim hensons seagulls though

[pianoplaylist]

I know. They were corning. So was the dry ice and all the other props they built for this set.

[chuckcolson]

liberace was a true entertainer. all you jazz and classical snobs are the real culprits of bad taste.

[pianoplaylist]

Will the real Chuck Colson please stand up?! I'm sure different than the average joe that I work with, but I'm glad they accept me for who I am. Everybody's entitled to their own taste and opinion of who is the greater artist. I agree with you about Lee, but it takes all kinds to make the world go around.

[richmeister1]

I play Jazz AND I like Liberace.....and I vote too..........but you're right that alot of so called "Jazz" players/fans et al....do figure they know it all.......Playing pieces of scales all over the place isn't Jazz.......that eliminates many who think that they play Jazz.

[mrobbins1925]

Liberace is the best piano player the world has ever seen.

[pianoplaylist]

You know, I wonder about that. I think he is too, but the piano has been around for but a smidgen of the world's history. In your 83 years, we have had moving pictures to tell the story to succeeding generations. I can't help but wonder about some of the players of other centuries. Do you mean the current world or the best in the history of the world?

[LE0BRAND0]

lol for use of 83yrs :)

[knausspiano]

This was Liberace's style, - a style for which he was known, whether playing Erroll Garner or Frederic Chopin. I was, and still am a fan of Liberace, but not to the same degree as I was and still am a fan of Erroll Garner. A little too much bling in this arrangement I have to say and the seagulls are dreadful. Russ Conway did a Misty cover too, which is far less ornate but more meaningful.

[LineSixDude]

sounds good too me but I'm not that kind of classical snob.. xb

he plays it with feeling and without bad sounded noted.

Maybe there's a bit too mush decoration notes in the right hand..

Is this the malmsteen of the piano? so mush criticise xb..

[pianoplaylist]

You're very funny. I had to look up malmsteen to understand you're question. No, I'm no malmsteen, but I was taught all my life in piano lessons and in vocal lessons, to listen with a critical ear, to know when someone goes flat, to know when they are purposely going a little flat, or coming in flat and scooping up to the note, etc.

[Kubalivre]

I can't help but to laugh, hard, at the gulls.

[sepod]

That's his style. He spent his entire career playing Vegas and they absolutely loved him. He's simply very flamboyant, in his musicality as well as his dress, and that's what his fans like.

[mjcahier]

awful and misinterpreted !! Garner help !!

[blendingbone]

uhhh....cheezy.

[pianoplaylist]

Cheezy is a very good description of it.

[tonebone0011]

Birds FTW

[TripMyWire3]

Seagulls?!?!?!??!

[deaddog1989]

How can he control his fingers with 10 pounds of diamond on them?

[funkzoid]

this is Fun !.... seagulls ....;)

[claesmard]

Wounderful!!!

[AlbertGBaierII]

He certainly had great technique, and the seagulls are a hoot! Wonder if they recorded 'Ebbtide' or 'I Cover The Waterfront'!!!

[pianoplaylist]

Ur so right drjukbox. It's perfect but awful. As much as I love his pop and romantic, this piece fails to capture the emotion. For a cool rendition of Misty check out user time0207. His suspended & unresolved chords give it a great feel. Not the same as Errol's, but much better than Liberace's.

[drjukebox]

So perfectly awful. Liberace lacked everything that Errol Garner had - timing, swing feeling, restraint, taste....well R.I.P.

[Arron413]

He played well.

[windstorm1000]

@drjukebox Maybe so--but don't make fun of Lee--I'm from his home town!! Dad and Aunt used to watch him on Wisconsin Ave. He was called 'Walter Busterkeys" Back then. Such an entertainer.