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Erroll Garner has a new album, "Ready, Take 1", to be released 9/30/2016. It includes 14 never before released studio recordings from his greatest period from 1969-1972 (often overlooked). He died in 1976.

 

Some music critics have said that Garner's left hand pattern is the clave pattern. It's actually more complex , sort of like a 4 measure montuno pattern that could have been extrapolated from clave ... he frequently employed this pattern when he played Latin tunes... it's 4 measures of continuous equally spaced dotted quarter notes that are forced to re-set every 4 bars.

 

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Harry was the Technical Editor of Mark Levine's "The Jazz Theory Book" and helped develop "The Jazz Piano Book." Find 850 of Harry's solo piano arrangements of standards and jazz tutorials at https://www.patreon.com/HarryLikas 
 

 

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gawd, I love his playing.

 

What's the name of dat tune? It sounds like a blues, with a bridge, and outside playing over the changes. And that left hand ...

 

Edit: I guess the name of the tune is Wild Music. Is that a Garner original?

These are only my opinions, not supported by any actual knowledge, experience, or expertise.
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In my opinion between 1969-1972 was Erroll Garner's greatest period. And often overlooked. At that time Erroll was playing at a feverish intensity and expanding his repertoire to include more modern pop tunes from the likes of Blood Sweat and Tears, The Beatles, Stevie Wonder, Burt Bacharach, etc.

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Harry was the Technical Editor of Mark Levine's "The Jazz Theory Book" and helped develop "The Jazz Piano Book." Find 850 of Harry's solo piano arrangements of standards and jazz tutorials at https://www.patreon.com/HarryLikas 
 

 

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I have good charts for all these Garner arrangements above including the new track "Wild Music". (You may PM me)... I have transcribed the head phrasing on almost his entire discography.

 

Garner wrote over 100 compositions beside "Misty". Misty is well know mainly because singer Johnny Mathis had a pop radio hit with it.

Harry was the Technical Editor of Mark Levine's "The Jazz Theory Book" and helped develop "The Jazz Piano Book." Find 850 of Harry's solo piano arrangements of standards and jazz tutorials at https://www.patreon.com/HarryLikas 
 

 

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