Re:Erroll Garner, the First Artist to Sue a Major Label and Win
by farisjarrah on Monday November 25, 2019 @11:52AM
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Great article! Erroll Garner is definitely my favorite jazz pianist, I think he definitely deserves some more love in Jazz history. The dude couldn't read music and was improvising stuff like this:
Edit: Erroll Garner's story is a great one if anyone wants to take a read:
I just find it funny, I was studying some of these piano transcriptions and I SERIOUSLY was disgusted at the stuff he was able to play. Like, one has to wonder if Erroll actually had 3 hands at some points, while practicing these masterpieces... Interestingly enough he was a short man... How on earth did he play some of these things?!?
"Short in stature (5 ft 2 in), Garner performed sitting on multiple telephone directories."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLLWN9x3Yis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OCJgP7_-fE
Edit: Erroll Garner's story is a great one if anyone wants to take a read:
I just find it funny, I was studying some of these piano transcriptions and I SERIOUSLY was disgusted at the stuff he was able to play. Like, one has to wonder if Erroll actually had 3 hands at some points, while practicing these masterpieces... Interestingly enough he was a short man... How on earth did he play some of these things?!?
"Short in stature (5 ft 2 in), Garner performed sitting on multiple telephone directories."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erroll_Garner