Jazz+ Posted October 28, 2016 Share Posted October 28, 2016 Released just this year (2016) for the first time. Erroll Garner composed "Misty" and always played it in Ab and embellished it differently every time.(Eb was the key pop singer Johnny Mathis made it famous in and appears in fake-books.) This recording session is from around 1970, much later than his other interpretations of the same song. The early 70's was during Garner's third and final great period of stylistic development where he became more experimental and employed continuous dotted quarter notes in his offset left hand pattern. He died in 1977 and unfortunately was virtually forgotten by the jazz academies. The rubato introduction is especially nice. The rubato Intro chords are: C-11 G- C- Ab-7 Gb 69 F-7 E7#9 Bb-7 A7b9 [video:youtube] Harry Likas was the Technical Editor of Mark Levine's "The Jazz Theory Book" and helped develop "The Jazz Piano Book." Find 700 of Harry’s piano arrangements of standards for educational purposes and jazz piano tutorials at www.Patreon.com/HarryLikas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jazz+ Posted October 28, 2016 Author Share Posted October 28, 2016 Here's another track from the same new release (Ready Take One, 2016), All of the tracks were recorded around 1970 but never released before. "Wild Music" is a bluesy Latin funk tune in A minor composed by Erroll Garner. Garner was prolific composer who wrote many tunes in this Latin jazz hard bop style and also a large number of ballads similar to Misty. Sadly he was almost forgotten by the jazz academies after his death. [video:youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKkwwoVNrNc Harry Likas was the Technical Editor of Mark Levine's "The Jazz Theory Book" and helped develop "The Jazz Piano Book." Find 700 of Harry’s piano arrangements of standards for educational purposes and jazz piano tutorials at www.Patreon.com/HarryLikas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doerfler Posted October 28, 2016 Share Posted October 28, 2016 Released just this year (2016) for the first time. Erroll Garner composed "Misty" that was lovely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RudyS Posted October 30, 2016 Share Posted October 30, 2016 The misty video isn't available for me somehow. Wild music is. Thanks! Rudy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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