Erroll Garner Playing Misty-Authentic Version

[Glinkaism1]

Ahhh! Play Misty for Me! Terrific and best Clint Eastwood music.

[thrashmetal1995]

i deng here creamed myself

[Myanleader]

Left and right handed, he was great!

[sdh74]

One of the most underappreciated and under celebrated jazz pianists of the 20th century. He was BRILLIANT!!!

[rmcjlive63]

who did the words

[Jerryrocky1]

Bottom line...like Gretsky to hockey and Jordan to basketball,Erroll Garner was put on this earth to play piano.

[francesca7564]

" Maestro" Erroll Garner .

Grazie per il post .

[gaylealstrom]

It's incomprehensible to me how someone can mention E.G. and Liberace in the same paragraph let alone the same sentence.

[fernmann7]

@gaylealstrom agreed. Liberace couldn't carry EG's piano bench

[gaylealstrom]

@fernmann7 literally as well as metaphorically.

[ArtemisaXP]

I'm enchanted.

[Livontheege11]

and to think...he never learned to read a note of music...and was still able to compose such an amazing song.

[MikeHenrick]

HE IS AMAZING, the only guy that can play like him and better is Oscar Peterson imo, I love the fact that this is in the right key how come all these so called expert jazz players play it in Eb and the sheet music says Eb the original recording is in Ab i've only just noticed when i come to record it.

I searched the net for ages and for some reason they all say Eb i know Johnny Mathis had a hit with it in that key, maybe thats why.... anyway great stuff,

[markmarktarmann]

@MikeHenrick because it s an easy key to play/improvise in. Eb major is the relative minor of c minor, which is every pianist's easy key. Ab is bit trickier with the added flat/black note. also it s a comfortable key for sax/horns. many of the standards in the real books are in Eb. also, in Eb it s a comfortable key for male vocalists. Ab would be much too high, or low. I usually play it in C when i sing it because in Eb it's too high for me to reach the top notes.

[markmarktarmann]

@MikeHenrick don't get uppity fool. have you asked a "expert" jazz pianist to play it in Ab? i'll bet you 5 to 1 on a ten they can, in Ab or C#, or any key. Or most any other standard. It's part of the basic criteria. They wouldn't be working with other jazz musicians if they couldn't. Can you?

[odysseetheater]

this is very new to me that he never learned to play piano.... oh my gooooood! incredible player 

[111abf111]

I remember I had the music for the Bay Street Concerto - and didn't Erroll Garner compose that? I can't find it anywhere.. It was beautiful - "too".

[OscarPetersonFan]

This is probably the most beautiful tune ever

[pianoplaylist]

Thank you for the education on that piece. I didn't know he never learned to read music. I guess what I meant by authentic was that it was really Erroll playing it in the video. Not somebody else that completely restyled and embellished it according to their own liking.

[MsPeperonata]

Garner composed Misty himself, and played it differently each time; never having learned to read music he made it up all over again every timehe played it so it's impossible to claim this is the "Authentic" version of the piece.  I'd say it was the best one I've heard so far, however!

[SCBlueShoes]

Ilove the way Mr Garner plays this minus the words! He also recorded a version for Clint Eastwoods movie. I think it was in the key of C. I know many people play it in E flat. The big band version at the end of the movie is in another key like A flat if I remember correctly. I really want to find the version in C. I really liked the harmonies that were simply beautiful. I do love the improve but I still want the C version to study. Rudy

[Jigov]

it is always better to listen the original, and if the composer of the music is playing ... well it just cannot be better :P

[OscarPetersonFan]

@SCBlueShoes The C version is avalible on you tube! I found it last week!

[BeaversPianoTV]

This Cat is incredible! I have never seen piano played so effortlessly. Its almost transcendent what he's doing here. Its really weird. almost mystical!

[worldofnana1]

He makes it look so easy. His Music what can I say the Greatest ever.

[aerofredywr]

Misty played by Erroll is one of those songs I can listen to again ´n again and never get tired of it.

[donnajazz]

Me too

[Jigov]

at some moments i think is better than sex...

[valvetrom]

@Jigov please explain?,your parts?

[fingerscarr]

this version is true , and brilliant especially from 2.30 ! !

this is really 'less is more '

[peterrw44]

I can hear this song played by EG over and over again.

His playing is so effortless and often he doesn't even look at the keyboard. Makes it look easy.

This is what music should be like, a joy to play.

[dojomania]

In general, yes. For instance, no one plays straight ,no chaser better than Monk, and when you have someone with EGs talents, then this holds true.Unless the song/piece has been so reduced to just a few chords, like in rock /pop where yeah, there's not a lot of interpretation.Of course, we are both going down the slippery slope of comparing one performer's "ability" against another. Peace!

[dojomania]

oh didn't answer your question directly.I would say that the composer has insights into the piece he composed that no one else has, after, it was his/her composition and inspiration,thereby making that composer's performance of the piece "better". With respect tof Misty and EG, we have a superb piece, a superb composer, a superb jazz performer and artiste. In a similar vein, I would love to have heard Mahler conduct his symphonies with the NY phil..Great example of composer having more insight

[slapmyfunkybass]

misty has probably been covered by every jazz artist yet garner always played it the best... his playing is poetry in motion, if debussy played jazz it would be this.... garner, a pure genius, the greatest improviser i've ever heard, rip mr garner

[dojomania]

slapmyfunky, * er, cough * there's a reason Erroll Garner plays Misty the best.......he composed it ! So when he plays misty, he isn't just covering the song, he's giving us new insights to his masterpeice.. Another reason he's great, he is able to play two solos at the same time, using his left and right hands.

[slapmyfunkybass]

sorry, i'm lost.... all because you write the piece why would that imply you would play it better than anyone else???

[ronnyorkswingman]

hej bra men mycket överarbetad

Garnne kan mycket bättre

[Davismusicguitar]

he is really fantastic

[barkulator]

I rarely like piano playing, but Garner is impossibly good

[Jigov]

this is my favorite version of Misty for me. Noone comes closer to EG. My favorite Garner peace is My Silent Love or his version of it.

[victorsethy]

Nobody coming even close to him in these days!!!

[drofmadness]

SMOKIN HOT. Love it

[marakimkin]

Errol Garner "The Greatest "

[lucamadeus]

thank you a lot for your interest about italian earthquake, I'm near to the places affected with the earthquake, but here we had no problems...

[pianoplaylist]

So glad to hear, and if I didn't comment on your page, I really enjoyed "You've Got a Friend."

[sparkycind]

Can you play this?

[pianoplaylist]

Me? Personally? Yes, but since I can't play it like Erroll or time0207, I don't post me playing it. As crappy as Liberace's version is, I certainly can't play it like him, either.

[sparkycind]

Why is Liberace's version crappy?

[pianoplaylist]

He just doesn't capture the intended feeling of the writer (AT ALL). There's no denying how good he is at every piece he always played publicly, but Misty is one piece where he really took away from the Jazzy feel of a traditional Jazz standard. To me his interpretation of the song sucked, though his playing in general in so good it is inimitable, no matter how many youtubers try to imitate him. Misty was written in a style that was beyond Liberace's technique and approach. (1 man's opinion.)

[sparkycind]

You know, i'm going to agree with you on that. Liberace's style can't really capture the jazzy effect Erroll Garner uses and I can say that as a songwriter and pianist.

[pianoplaylist]

I was thinking more about this today and I kind of realized Liberace mainly stuck to or specialized in 3 styles: classical, boogie woogie, and ragtime. His rendition of Misty sounds like he was playing for the Royals in a cathedral.

[pianoplaylist]

...and I overlooked of course, the popular music and the highly-colorized style of his romantic pieces. But none of that fits Misty, that's for sure.

[sparkycind]

Actually Liberace was one of the best classical players ever. You can really tell just by looking at the way he plays Franz Liszt.

[pianoplaylist]

I agree, but I admit I like his Chopin Nocturne in E flat with all the extra notes, and his Moonlight Sonata Bossa Nova style.

[sparkycind]

Very true. How do feel about his pop music?

[pianoplaylist]

I just love it all. I have enough of it that I can listen to it night and day. I just feel that nobody ever has played as well as him since the piano was invented (300 yrs ago?) and none of his many imitators can play as well as him even if they mimick every note.

[sparkycind]

True!!! There's nobody who can play like him. What do you think about his ragtime?

[pianoplaylist]

He's terrific at it but I can only take so much of it. Ragtime all sounds the same to me. Probably because it's from so far before my time. I don't remember any popular music (while it was being popularized) from before 1969. Ragtime is new to me, just since I became a youtuber. The Entertainer was so popular when I was in high school but I didn't understand that it was a ragtime piece until lately.

[yvesami]

Try to find an early recording of Garner - there is an LP from maybe 1950 called something like 'New Directions in Jazz Piano' and there are three AMAZING Garner cuts on it - none of them sound like the style he became famous for though you can begin to hear his dense, chord-rich right hand in them: Erroll's Bounce, Erroll's Blues, and Stairway To The Stars. If anyone has these recordings PLEEEEASE post to youtube!! (The other pianists on the LP: Oscar Peterson, Mary Lou Williams and one other?)

[donnajazz]

The truth!

[mscandyfloss]

love it!

[vargabela]

the best

[conejolua]

fantastico

un saludo

Raúl...

[pianoplaylist]

Hola Raúl...gracias por estar syntonisado. Acabo de postear eso. El realmente es un músico único y fantástico.