Biography
Erroll Louis Garner (June 15, 1921 – January 2, 1977) was an American jazz pianist and composer known for his swing playing and ballads. His instrumental ballad "Misty", his best-known composition, has become a jazz standard. It was first recorded in 1956 with Mitch Miller and his orchestra, and played a prominent part in the 1971 motion picture Play Misty for Me. Scott Yanow of AllMusic calls him "one of the most distinctive of all pianists" and a "brilliant virtuoso". Garner received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6363 Hollywood Boulevard. His live album Concert by the Sea, first released in 1955, sold more than 1 million copies by 1958, and Yanow's opinion of the album is that it "made such a strong impression that Garner was considered immortal from then on."
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Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
30
2021
Bewitched
2023
Mack The Knife - Ella In Berlin
1960
Smokin' At The Half Note
1965
Concert By The Sea
1956
Everything Is Everything
1970
Blow Up = ブロー・アップ
1973
Tell Mama
1968
Magician
1974
The Smithsonian Collection Of Classic Jazz
1973
Presenting Isaac Hayes
1968
Soliloquy
1958
Willow Weep For Me
1969
Bob Brookmeyer And Friends
1965
"Bird" Symbols
1961
Ella Fitzgerald Sings Songs From Let No Man Write My Epitaph
1960
Erroll Garner
1953
Both Sides Of Midnight
1988
The First 25 Years The Silver Anniversary Album
1981
Misty
1974
That's My Kick
1967
Winners!
1963
Erroll Garner Plays Misty
1962
The Most Happy Piano
1957
Credited work
6,712 releases · 1,320 albums · active 1950–2026
- Performance · 8,727
- Other credits · 257
Studios: Deutschlandhalle · Tivoli, Copenhagen · Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey · Aoi Studio