The complete
live concert recording – newly uncovered by the Erroll Garner Jazz Project and
digitally remastered in its entirety after six decades – is produced by
Guggenheim® Award-winning jazz pianist and Director of Jazz Studies at the
University of Pittsburgh Geri Allen and 4-time GRAMMY®Award-winning producer
Steve Rosenthal. The Complete Concert By The Sea will introduce a new
generation to Erroll Garner and his innovative piano playing. The 3-CD box set
contains the complete live Concert By The Sea including 11 previously
unreleased tracks, the original edited Columbia release from 1956 (digitally
restored and remastered at The Magic Shop, NYC using the Plangent Process) and
bonus material including announcer Jimmy Lyons and interviews with the Erroll
Garner trio: Denzil DaCosta Best, Eddie Calhoun, and Garner himself, recorded
directly after the concert.
Concert By
The Sea originally produced in Carmel, California as part of local promoter
Jimmy Lyons' "Sunset Series" laid the groundwork for the beginnings
of the renowned Monterey Jazz Festival. Appropriately, on September 18, 2015
the 58th Monterey Jazz Festival will highlight this highly anticipated release
in a rare historic tribute performance featuring Geri Allen, Jason Moran,
Christian Sands, Jimmie Cobb, Russell Malone and Darick Oles. The Festival will
also feature a special Concert By The Sea panel on September 19, 2015 including
Geri Allen, Steve Rosenthal, and Monterey Jazz Festival Board Member (who
attended the original Concert By The Sea) Jim Costello, moderated by Erroll
Garner Jazz Project Director and Ethnomusicologist Jocelyn Arem.
Liner note
writers include Geri Allen, Award-winning author and UCLA American Studies
Professor Robin D.G. Kelley, PHd, and GRAMMY®Award-winning jazz writer Dan
Morgenstern who writes: "I don't think I need to tell you how significant
a figure Erroll Garner is in the history of American music. His artistry
transcended categories over four decades. Without ever saying a word or
indulging in showbiz trimmings, he could just play the piano and hold thousands
enraptured."
Sony Legacy
President Adam Block remarks, "Concert By The Sea is a marvelous, mystical
album that has been allowed to dangle on the periphery of broader recognition
for far too long. Now for the first time, the complete recording and the
remarkable story of this masterpiece can be heard and understood in all its glory.
This really is a significant release – critically important to the preservation
of one of the truly epic moments in live recorded performances."
Producer
Geri Allen remarks, "Erroll Garner personifies the joy of fearless
virtuosity and exploration. One of the defining precursors to bebop, piano
giant Erroll Garner embodied the very spirit of swing and free improvisation
from every vantage point. His playing celebrated the greatest swinging big
bands through an innovative and impossible pianism. Singular yet all embracing,
Garner blurred the line between great art and popular art, and he was a staunch
journeyman of the blues and his Pittsburgh legacy."
TRACK
LISTING FOR COMPLETE CONCERT
DISC ONE
1)
Announcer: Jimmy Lyons (Previously unreleased)
2) Night And
Day (Previously unreleased)
3) Spring Is
Here (Previously unreleased)
4) I'll
Remember April
5) The
Nearness Of You (Previously unreleased)
6) Where Or
When
7) Sweet And
Lovely (Previously unreleased)
8) Lullaby
Of Birdland (Previously unreleased)
9) Mambo
Carmel
10) Teach Me
Tonight
11) Will You
Still Be Mine(Previously unreleased)
12) I Cover
The Waterfront (Previously unreleased)
13) Bernie's
Tune (Previously unreleased)
14) How
Could You Do A Thing Like That To Me?
15) It's All
Right
DISC TWO
16)
Announcer: Jimmy Lyons (Previously unreleased)
17) They
Can't Take That Away From Me
18) Autumn
Leaves
19)
S'Wonderful (Previously unreleased)
20) Laura
(Previously unreleased)
21) Red Top
22) April In
Paris
23) Caravan
(Previously unreleased)
24) Erroll's
Theme / Announcer: Jimmy Lyons (Previously unreleased)
TRACK
LISTING FOR ORIGINAL EDITED CONCERT
DISC THREE
1) I'll
Remember April
2) Teach Me
Tonight
3) Mambo
Carmel
4) Autumn
Leaves
5) It's All
Right With Me
6) Red Top
7) April in
Paris
8) They
Can't Take That Away From Me?
9) How Could
You Do A Thing Like That To Me
10) Where or
When
11) Erroll's
Theme
12) Post
Concert Interview: Will Thornbury with Erroll Garner, Eddie Calhoun, Denzil
DaCosta Best: September 19, 1955 (Previously unreleased)
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