Considering how many incredible musicians were alive during Errol's life and yet he always remained in a class by himself in terms of his great writing and improvisational skills. Reading music can be over rated because it's just one system of many. Sure it's a great one that makes learning others music easier, and before tape recorders it helped one keep track of their own compositions, but music can also be absorbed and intellectualized from the ear and the visual memory to the heart & hands.
Yep, Erroll couldn't read music. He played the whole piece by ear, and added his personal two jazzy cents ;) ∽∽ Thanks for this rare gem. Has it appeared on LP, or has it been issued only on CD?
What struck me immediately is that Erroll is playing this in the Copy Key of D flat major. Of course all of us Garner aficionados know he could not read music. So did he play along to a record I wonder while he got to know the piece? Like everything else, Erroll's mind absorbed the melody, processed it and produced a work of art. Claude Debussy would have simply loved it!
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TheSunGlassesThing 2 months ago
Thanks for this!
Cheers from Athens,pitty its a place where good music isnt apreciated.
thabwr 2 months ago
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thabwr 2 months ago
Considering how many incredible musicians were alive during Errol's life and yet he always remained in a class by himself in terms of his great writing and improvisational skills. Reading music can be over rated because it's just one system of many. Sure it's a great one that makes learning others music easier, and before tape recorders it helped one keep track of their own compositions, but music can also be absorbed and intellectualized from the ear and the visual memory to the heart & hands.
paulj0557 3 months ago
@paulj0557 ...well said.
JckDupp 3 months ago
TheJmd441 is so right in his comment. I'll go even further: this is a true impresionistic performance. Thanks for this jewel in the crown.
wolkowy1 4 months ago
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K43TOC 5 months ago
Yep, Erroll couldn't read music. He played the whole piece by ear, and added his personal two jazzy cents ;) ∽∽ Thanks for this rare gem. Has it appeared on LP, or has it been issued only on CD?
KaRidder234 6 months ago
What struck me immediately is that Erroll is playing this in the Copy Key of D flat major. Of course all of us Garner aficionados know he could not read music. So did he play along to a record I wonder while he got to know the piece? Like everything else, Erroll's mind absorbed the melody, processed it and produced a work of art. Claude Debussy would have simply loved it!
knausspiano 8 months ago 2
wow!!!
MCalixte89 1 year ago
this man really was brilliant.
TheDarmardar 1 year ago
yo Debussy would be proud.
wrong and many right notes together,
and altogether fine....
Erroll had the right stuff
TheJmd441 1 year ago 2
@TheJmd441 You must remember Erroll could´nt read music. Yes, he had the right stuff.
aerofredywr 1 year ago
@TheJmd441 There's no wrong notes, he is improvising over the piece. He's not trying to play it as written.
some "wrong" articulated notes are common on every jazz pianist (even on classical trained ones..)
And yea, Debussy would be proud, and I guess that he improvised too over his own music.
TheGroovestock 10 months ago
@TheJmd441 The melody has been used in at least 2 popular songs
spacepatrolman 4 months ago
Beautiful!!!!
rosolino38 1 year ago
Thank you! I understand better now why there are a few notes allusion to Clair de Lune in one of the songs of 'Concert by the Sea'!
What a piano player!
korrigan8 1 year ago