I heard a story that someone criticized Erroll because of his inability to read music. He responded by saying,"No one comes to watch me read." Thanks for posting.
@moochincrawdad
Excellent - the response of a real musician! 😀
@katyhaymus1029
🎯
@the83rdtrombonist60
@@moochincrawdad And he still learned how to read music.
@andreluislacroix6457
Perfect answer. Errol Garner was a genius.
@GeatanoLeone
I'd rather lose my capacity to read music if someone says me that i could play like him.
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@leeprier6503
His music brought me and my husband together in 1959. Especially Misty, that was our favorite song. We were married fifty years. Misty was so special to us. Thank you, Errol xx
@musical_lolu4811
Wow!
@ShadyRonin
That’s beautiful!
@morganplatt6762
If I lived to be a million years old, I still couldn't play the piano like that. Something special going on here.
@user-lb4ew7gr2j
nah you probably could
@l3gendbaap963
@@user-lb4ew7gr2j Idon’t know man, erroll is born with a certain feeling in his hands that can never be achieved by any experience level whatsoever. It’s just his genetic advantage of mobility.
@user-lb4ew7gr2j
@@l3gendbaap963 and at one point he couldn't play at all; taking what he said literally a million years is more than enough time as long as you're actively learning
@googlem7
who is living a million years?
@user-lb4ew7gr2j
@@googlem7 nobody needs to, there are already better players
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@jensonphan
He's not even lookin at the piano, mad respect to this man.
@angelinababinska8826
He just feels the music in his hands and then vibing to his own talent
@likeidksomething3142
Tbh once you do a song enough time its easy...but this...this is art
@panmad6156
What piano? It's like he's dreaming. I wonder what he could possibly be thinking about while he's playing?
@luf4rall
the keys are just an extension of his fingers.
@adione75
almost as good as stevie wonder
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@stigmoltu-jacobsen
Nobody, absolutely nobody can play ‘Misty’ as brilliantly as the master genious himself.
@dominiquelabardens2785
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@Lawrencelylesplays2
he's using too many arpeggios
@jesusislukeskywalker4294
@@Lawrencelylesplays2🤠
@donnafaust8402
Most good pianist can play without looking at there fingers - most of the time. After a while you just know where the keys are. I know because I play piano also - absolutely no where as great as he can. But as I said, if you practice enough you really get to know the keyboard.
@stigmoltu-jacobsen
Yes, I’m aware that a brilliant pianist doesn’t have to look at his fingers or the keybord. But Erroll even turns his head often and looks away while playing at high speed.
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@MrRickywallace
When I was 14, my mother bought me Andre Previn and Oscar Peterson albums, then I was hooked on jazz piano. Then followed Erroll and Bill Evans. I have played "Misty" on the piano since I was about 10 years old, about 60 years! "Misty" is one of the greatest love ballads of all time!
@christiansanden8005
Agree!
@MarkSeibold
It is interesting to note that all three of these pianists you mentioned are naturally born as left-handed.
@vinyltapelover
@Wes McGee Clint Eastwood, Jessica Walter in Play Misty For Me. I put that movie with Hitchcocks's Psycho as two great, disturbing thrillers that hit the big screen. I have yet since either was released, ever to watched them again,lol.
@sylviaconstantinidis99
You are so right about 'Misty', but Erroll Garner's splendid introductions sold me on his performance skills from the first few notes - he invites interest by invention.
@mikegalvin9801
@@vinyltapelover I was eating at a restaurant in Monterey once wondering why it looked so deja vu familiar and the waiter said "Did you ever see Play Misty for Me?" Classic movie and classic song - so many great versions it's nice to see Garner do it.
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@bliss9745
Three interesting facts about Garner: (1) He composed this beautiful creation, Misty. (2) He was only 5 feet 2 inches tall. (3) He never learned to read music and composed Misty using a dictaphone, getting friends to transcribe it later into a musical score.
@TheBigDaddy51
I have heard him say that he came up with Misty in 30 minutes
@426cylinders7
@@TheBigDaddy51 if that’s true than it only further confirms his genius. God bless him.
@xxcrump2640
What makes his height interesting?
@426cylinders7
@@xxcrump2640 he looks way taller on video, so knowing he was only 5’2 is kind of interesting I guess
@dean3434
Not too bad. I'm only a 5'4" male. At 72 I can kinda-sorta do (kinda-sorta) do what the man does. We short guys work harder I guess.
Dean Seattle Jazz Alley
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@michaeliacangelo7681
Erroll defines "tickling the ivories."
@MsVirginiaHammer
Yes, he does! Well put, Michael.
@assiawinfield6524
I just discovered Errol and now I am obsessed with genius at piano . So beautiful and mesmerizing. I am sure he is playing in heaven .
@trevorlintott598
Hope u like Joe sample, (the crusaders)another key board great.
@amarchmike
I named my beloved daughter "Misty" after this song
@sumrandomdude379
Gotta catch em all
@SireneValseuse
@@sumrandomdude379 bruh..😂😂totally destroyed my romantic mood
@thevisitor1012
Legend has it she grew up to become a great water trainer.
@SireneValseuse
@@thevisitor1012 lmao
@alyisanoob
@@sumrandomdude379 BAODNWOD
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@marvindias1377
Dude that line at 2:40 was freakin insane. So much creativity in the line itself, but he puts these beautiful chords behind such a well constructed melody. What a line. 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻🤤🤤🥵😩
@glauciomaciel.
Hello friends, i hope that you like this Misty Version in piano https://youtu.be/Qp-dicJUtmY
@opp0site
the brutality in that line is insane like how am I supposed to do that too?
@yeasstt
@@opp0site practice
@nobutternotes
Hahah he did the end of the lick at the end of the line (D# to E to C to D).
@squirrelpatrick3670
'block chords'. Garner was a master at playing the line in octaves in the right hand, with harmony notes filling in the chord. He could use grace notes on the top or even with the thumb and you can hear how gorgeous his tremolo was, splitting the block into two halves. Other pianists used different block chord styles
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@chrisarmstrong5057
My mom and dad took me to the Elwood in Windsor,ont in the late 60's to see this man. I was 15/16. I am forever grateful they exposed me to such beautiful music.
@BernhardHolzner
There are no hands- there are butterflies flying over the piano.
@lilysghost
magic
@abigaila3516
That's what happens when you have passion for what you do. At that point, you don't even have to worry about things like that, it just comes naturally.
@barriep9
You made me chuckle but you are right 😀
@nadaejimara
yeah
@helmuthuber766
Ein Zauberer...😍
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@mw24551
Here after being introduced by adam neely. I can't believe this is the first time i'm hearing this master play.
@__kira6687
same xd
@nhandang5105
better late than never :D
@soniclevels1514
I heard of Erroll 7 years ago, and I always find myself coming back. 😎 .. so I’ll see you soon. Lol
@donnagilligan2905
No kidding . Simply fabulous!! What a gifted man!!
@jacobbillings3692
Be sure to check out "35 minutes of Erroll Garner" also on YT. Has a lot of his jauntier style which is equally great.
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@juancarlossaavedra6757
He did not read music instead He make the piano read His mind. Genius ! ! !
@jacoposcaccinipianist
What a perfect piece! I’m a classical pianist, but love this piece so much that I get goosebumps, and I can feel the deep and inner feature: love this “arpeggio chords” technique…it feels to me like flying on a soft steam of a cloudy night sky
@Twizzledoc187
That finger roll he did with the left hand @ 1:06 was SIICK! He did it very quick but it adds such a nice sound and layers to this masterpiece.
@niiikolaiii
Yes! It's called an arpeggio and it's absolutely beautiful.
@michaelhengst9034
Still gets me to have tears in my eyes what a genius he was!
@xxcrump3575
Stop your weeping and be a man💪
@hilaryapril7043
Tears in my eyes too !
@xxcrump3575
It's ok you're a girl😌
@stevemelancon6207
Dear God, can we please have music like this again. What genius. Playing be ear.
@youresoakinginit2113
Actually, composing as he went along. It's his song!
@goiena8400
MARAVILLOSO ‼️😄
@jdiaz4877
He plays the piano like a harp. So beautiful
@blah148
his connection to the piano is so unquestionable—you can't see any kind of separation or hesitation.. just unbelievable!
@user-rq3gr8pj8t
Never mind the reading music statement the man is looking up to the stars when he's playing he's not even looking at the keyboard he knows where everything is. Genius .
@hilaryapril7043
He's so happy
@glauciomaciel.
Hello friends, i hope that you like this Misty Version in piano https://youtu.be/Qp-dicJUtmY
@myheadisafilingcabinet
its like he's in his own world. its honestly so mesmerising to just watch him play <3
@douglasavila4633
Bob acri , sleep wey
@SunAndMirror
As a guitarist, I watch this and cry. So many simultaneous notes from one person. Effortless, yet this MUST be difficult for any typical pianist. Can any piano players reaffirm? Because he looks like he is doing some otherworldy playing...with such ease...
@gribo.9543
Yeah its absolutely insane
@allegeddevil1956
lotta practice requried and a certain amount of passion, but by on means impossible or even tremendously diffiuclt, anyone really can do it, but what makes it amazing is the passion not really the difficulty level
@gerryhowe1086
to me what makes it so incredibly difficult in practice is that he wrote it himself, without ever learning to read music. absolutely unreal artist
@aBachwardsfellow
@@gerryhowe1086 - that is the genius of a genius - it all exists and is formed in the mind first, whether it is ever written down, or not. Written music simply preserves the creative thoughts - it does not create them. All of Bach's masterpieces existed in his mind before they ever existed on paper. The same with Erroll - same genius, different genre.
@xxcrump2640
Esta que pe'ano dos la excelente del sol cerebro
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@nikitaryabchun4606
How is this man not more worldly recognized. He has such a beautiful and unique style in approaching jazz piano with his left hand swinging rhythm section accompanied by the right hand octave melody lines. Erroll was living proof that jazz is one of the greatest art forms. This video deserves 7 billion views.
@user-iu3ow4kb7c
こまづわんし
@theomartin6238
Jazz piano? Man, this sound like Debussy or Ravel composition.
@Rickriquinho
Don't be ridiculous... This is racism and alienation.
@theomartin6238
Ricardo da Mata It is not racism. It is fact. You probably never heard of Debussy or Ravel compositions?
@peteirie1075
I always thought Errol Garner was pretty recognised in music... always mentioned in classical and jazz circles, particularly in his day. I just heard something about him in a doc about the evolution of jazz recently ...
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@kurtzwar729
My mom's favorite piano player, Errol Garner. What great control and touch. Mom loved Errol's big, blasting chords and fabulous style. Don't we all. What a gift to America. RIP Errol Garner.
@georgewhitehead8185
His hair is WAY COOL, and his playing is beyond compare! What a gifted artist.
@jameschlipala9281
Thinking the same here. Dapper Dan, Old Spice or Clubman pomade? 👌
@howdydoody5524
His compsition and his playing ...both amazing and beautiful..what a talent
@jenniferflynn9306
He is such a gift! I just love listening to him. I can have a bad day and when I hear him play, everything is a little better.
@businesstriad7348
楽譜の読めない彼が此の様に美しい曲を書けて演奏出来るなんてなんて素敵な人❣️
@LukasZapletal
This guy is looking everywhere, but the piano. Mindblowing excellence.
@coxkoala591
He loves his piano as he loves Misty....by heart...
@xxcrump3297
Looking at it only helps the beginners
@mgconlan
@@xxcrump3297 Actually the reason he isn't looking at the piano is because he was blind. He was playing by touch, just like Ray Charles and Stevie Wonder.
@xxcrump3297
@@mgconlan what kind of animals made an idiot like you?
@DawnMartinOfficial
@@mgconlan Clearly, you know nothing about history!
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@larsthorwald3338
Wow. He's clearly from another planet. Jaw-dropping.
@reneemoore6249
Thanks for posting this historical film of the master playing his own piece just as free as a bird. Wonderful to behold. I play from ear mostly. I was getting the bridge wrong. I was playing a different one. But now I think I've got it. Nothing like getting it firsthand from the composer. What a world!
@TonyWilliampianoman
Garner had a unique "tool kit" as a pianist due to the fact he didn't know sheet music, theoretical fingering. Sharps and Flats meant nothing too him. He settled into playing in keys that his mind and hands felt most comfortable with. Not straying from the melody too much, he applied massive resources from left-hand in almost orchestral accompaniment playing octave passages as fast as a concert pianist, crossing the beat with his right hand, changing moods from maximum to minimal accent, sliding a semitone into chords with his right hand thumb and little finger, using little musical catch phrases from tunes different to the featured one, using r.h. index finger in a stabbing mode. Also having a great stride left hand solo ability; and finally a really nice mannerism and sense of fun with audiences. Yeah, I discovered him in 1969 and still a huge fan.
@SunnyBirthday
Beautifully put. "Massive resources from left hand" is almost an understatement given that many media reports focus on his striking degree of ambidexterity: aside from the piano (obviously), he could also write with both hands and play golf from both sides. Erroll is an inspiration and shows that "dominant hand" is only a limitation of the mind if you are willing to practice things with two hands.
@dean3434
Well put Pianist in Straffordshire. However, his mind and every single note and the piano were just one.
@maetzchenmusik
He sure was one of a kind in piano jazz. Swinging like crazy.
@jazzladz5950
Wonderful piece about him in today’s Wall Street Journal brought me here. Amazing musician.
@rondrozdowski6541
Same here. Wonderful article. Wonderful musician.
@TITOFROG1
Misty is my all-time favorite. Love this piece and the way Error Garner plays it is so mesmerizing, effortlessly smooth and flowing. Wow, what a pianist maestro and magician at the keys. Kudos and my utmost admiration. I'll never tire listening to your "Misty". Thanks.
@MrLive2win
Even in the cheap seats his music makes me feel like a millionaire.
@musiconlyplease98
Now that's a compliment!!
@vinyltapelover
MrLive2win Great comment. That comment had me smiling ear to ear.
@czarinc.6971
That’s the beauty of it
@user-wc6br4wg4h
Grazia bene
@nomdeplume6189
Most poetic and succinct compliment I've ever read on youtube. Bravo!
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@plunkervillerr1529
Thank GOD that we have these wonderful recordings. may they survive forever.
@robhosking9399
I've been listening to Erroll Garner for 40+ years, and to me he is a genius. No other pianist has given me more pleasure. The best pianist that ever lived.
@JerriBerriBoBerri
I couldn't have made it without this most beautiful song ever. You were/are heavenly Erroll.
@PanamaBob1942
1963, the Tenderloin in San Francisco, standing outside the Blackhawk, listening to this incredible musician playing to a packed house. Not old enough to get in, but even listening on the street was an amazing experience.
@marioarturox
He makes piano playing look like an easy thing to do. He's so in control. What a talent!
@peggymoore7850
An elderly friend told me of her husband who played the piano in Madison square gardens during the war, whilst playing Misty a gentleman stood behind him listening, when finished the gentleman complemented him on his playing in his words 'never have I heard this song played so perfect with such feeling' he thanked the gentleman and asked his name ? the gentleman replied .... Erroll Garner I wrote it sir ! :)
@lylecosmopolite
The greatest possible compliment. "The war" could not have been WW2, because Misty was composed in 1954.
@jens-jakobarnved4505
Peggy Moore ko
@donaldrighettini1990
There has always been war, Bravo Dear Mr Gardner, i fell in love to this song
@MartinSage
Peggy Moore Wow what a story!
@QueenBee-gx4rp
Peggy Moore WOW! You just gave me goosebumps all over! What a wonderful compliment! Thank you!
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@dudley5533
Those hands are absolutely magical! Errol becomes part of the piano.
@timchapman5567
A beautiful song, played as only Errol could. His marvellous CD Concert by the Sea has moved me deeply for more than sixty years.
@irisrivera8422
Amazing how I just happened to see a movie called “Play Misty fir me” with Clint Eastwood and learned about this extraordinary musician.
@kevinmalone3210
If you ever get someone calling you and say, Play Misty For Me, run for the hills!
@megaanderson97
What a performance. There is a casual gracefulness to the way he plays the keys.
@cynthiamclaglenallen1150
My mother was a concert and Jazz pianist in London and Kenya, Africa. She had records of Erroll Garner playing and I loved his piano playing the best, when I was only seven years old. As you say he had a distinct style different from any other. My mother went to the Royal Academy but long before that she always loved Jazz and had had a Birthday Present went she was 13 years old. to have a piano lesson in Jazz from Billy Mayrel. She went on to play concerts of Music from Debussy, Ravel, Beethovan, Schuman and Mozart etc but when she came back from a broken marriage from Berlin to London she began playing for Billy with his troupe of lady pianists. When she was at the Royal Academy of Music, she heard that Art Tatum was coming to London. She arranged for her fellow students to come and hear him at a nightclub in London. They all sat down excited and waited. I imagined it to like that scene in "The Red Shoes" when the hero and his fellow composers are waiting to hear the music, not to see the ballet,- and were shushing everybody. Well, Art Tatum came on and began playing but people continued to talk. Suddenly Art got down from the piano and walked off the stage. ThIs was in early 1930s, when people acted differently. My mother Kay Marjoribanks, went to the manager and asked why Mr Tatum had left the stage. The manager said that Art was not used to people talking while he played. My mother then went backstage and talked to Art Tatum. She said that she was so excited to hear him play and that a whole bunch of Royal Academy of Music students were out there waiting to hear from him. People in London did not realise the conventions of America or of good music, especially in a nightclub. (Paris might have been a lot better). She was well off and she had a car and offered to drive him around London which she did. He came back and played and she arranged for him to play a recital at the Royal Academy itself. For an almost blind, self taught pianist, the reception Academy Main Tutor said he was a brilliant and very gifted musician. In London Art and his wife were quite frightened, as they had not ever been abroad, and of course did not know how they would be received. America was extremely racist then but Paris especially, and London were much more accommodating. My mother followed his work all his life and was influenced by him and Billy Mayrel in her own music.
@johnvalentine3456
This is a wonderful story about your mother, who sounds like a truly great person and musician. I'm so glad you shared this with all of us. Just one bone to pick: The part about the Academy Main Tutor deeming Art Tatum "brilliant and very gifted" is quite patronizing, not from you, but from them, even if it was the 1950's. It's also a monumental understatement. Art Tatum was one of the greatest pianists and musicians in music history, regardless of genre. Much more than 'brilliant and/or very gifted'! The Tutor, no doubt white, likely was not all that familiar with America's classical music, Jazz, and without realizing it, I'm sure, comes off as a patronizing know-it-all at worst, and Euro-classical snob at best. A more humble assessment would have been something like this: "I am not qualified to comment on what this man is doing from a musical perspective, me being woefully uninformed about the discipline and courage that must be required to play such difficult music as part of Mr. Tatum's chosen art form, but, clearly, America has produced a musician who's piano playing and arranging skills rival the greatest classical pianists on this planet. And America has produced a genre of music with such harmonic, melodic and rhythmic sophistication and feeling, that, I, and am sure many others at the institution must study this music further! Perhaps Art Tatum could provide some instruction in this regard, and we would like to have him back in a professorial capacity, if he would be so inclined at our most gracious request". Think of the possibilities here! It may have even extended Tatum's life, as America clearly was not good for him. He died at just 47 years old. Nonetheless, I'm glad they saw fit to have Tatum perform for them. A wonderful cultural exchange, to be sure. All praise to your mother for making it happen. She was way ahead of her time!
@pipharper2963
wow, what an amazing story. thank you for sharing that.
@NerfHerderD17
Thanks for sharing this. I enjoyed reading.
@MsVirginiaHammer
I agree, Cynthia! I ADORE Bill Evans, Oscar Peterson, Art Tatum, George Shearing ... Bud Powell: ALL HONORED POWER TO HIM FOREVERMORE - but Erroll. Erroll Garner is simply: he is: an orchestra, a whole Big Band (his main influence, he acknowledged): unto himself. His SPIRIT! He NEVER talks! He just does that ADORABLE singing to himself: and he PLAYS. That's ALL, y'all. There will NEVER -- not ever, ever - not EVER - be another on this planet, I don't think: EVER: who can do CLOSE to what he did. Thank ALL the gods for him. Always. THANK YOU, ERROLL! -- PS: Y'ALL: HE can play THIS SONG BETTER THAN ANYONE: Because he made it up. (lol: I almost typed: "He wrote it." But. We know who wrote it. A notator, thank heck, who has saved the chart for us.) HE CREATED IT. Thoe MAGNIFICENT harmonic chord changes and melody. So.
@MsVirginiaHammer
O, WOW. Now I read your whole comment (I'm sorry; I hadn't read the whole thing, before). ART TATUM! That is BEYOND WONDERFUL, what your Mom did for Art that time. HOW PEOPLE COULD CHATTER during ART TATUM playing??!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! utterly blows my mind. BLOWS IT. BLOWs it UP. - What a thing, Cynthia. What a thing. THANK you for sharing that. People. I can't understand people. AND GEORGE SHARING. That blind, British MARVEL. HE PLAYED SO GORGEOUSLY, too, eh? Born blind. 1 of the top 10 Jazz pianists in the world, I'd say. BUT NO ONE COULD PLAY LIKE ART TATUM. NO ONE. That Right hand of his. - FLYing over the keys; -- --- !!!!!! - And the Left hand, perfectly keeping up! astounding. ASTOUNDING. -- and Marian McPartland! No slouch, either! Thank you so much for this, - VCH & Midlantic Theatre Co., Newark, NJ, USA
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@andrewbeddall7109
Saw him in BIrmingham in the 60’s. A two-handed genius who mesmerised with his performances and professionalism. How his trio knew how his improvisations were going, I have no idea. Sheer brilliance and inspirational. Legend.
@billrosenthal8356
So Gooood. I haven't heard it for many years. I heard a version where Errol grunts some while he is playing, loved it.
@michaelhayes6887
He was the first jazz concert I ever saw in 1966 at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston. I was 12. My dad picked the right show to love jazz! Thanks!
@bratschenstefan
Einfach genial, der Pianist und der Song! Thank you, Errol! Grüße aus Stralsund, Germany
@larryw5355
This man plays from his heart which is even biigger than that piano! What a joy to listen to him play!
@bplantmans2980
Erroll Garner is the King of improvisation, composing, uttering, executing , arranging anything without previous preparation and without the ability to read music. Total genius. RIP
@user-cj1ig5qp7v
Настоящий гений-музыкант! Я просто балдею от его игры !!!
@richardgornalle4536
It's wonderful being able to watch this superb magical musician play his creation.
@naavasoong7297
Namaste!!! This is my favorite piece bt Mr. Garner!!! I love his improvisations of the tune. His artistry on the piano is amazing!!!!!
@franciscomarcos7675
Sempre q posso vejo esta gravacao do Errol Garner, tocando lindamente a cancao Misty, dando um show em todas as etapas de sua interpretacao! Muito lindo!
@LaughLounge11
that hair shines brighter than my future.
@sethgoldman15
At my family's Bar and Restaurant in NYC he was playing in our bar, I sat at the bar listening, sometimes hiding behind the jukebox because I was not allowed in, he played a few nights a week for years and I didnt know what I was hearing...I play Jazz guitar now and boy do I know how lucky I was
@an4ao
it is amazing and great!
@blancavillalon7769
OMG really?¡¡¡¡
@AHGS400
Free Palestine
@limonero65
Where,'s the Bar?
@Coach49217
what bar is that?
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@3x_cam333
I could watch him play all day! I love the way he plays it he makes it look so effortless 🤩😭
@LukeO870
His Command Of The Keyboard Together With His Melodic Interpretations On Any Given Score Is Breathtaking, Timeless, And Wondrous...🤔
@anonymousgeorge4321
So beautiful it brought tears to my eyes.
@jonsmith848
The sheer Artistry almost brings tears to my eyes
@robertburns6967
this world has great music, thank god for people like erroll garner, such talent god bless him
@MrJazzologist1
If Erroll Garner had had the finest musical education, and learned the intricasies of musical scoring from the best in the country he would not have played any better. His genius rose above learning by rote - he simply mastered the instrument and let his magical emotional depth flow through his fingers onto the right keys. What wonderful interpretations he gave us.
@garyrice1711
Interpretations? If you are referring to the song "Misty", he didn't interpret it, he wrote it. If that isn't what you meant, then disregard my comment.
@TheRealSurrealDeal
Gary Rice interpretations in context would mean his style or his methods of playing here, also what hes playing too. it's not the actual denotation of interpretations here, if it wasn't obvious enough.
@egyptianminor
+John Perks Just like Wes Montgomery.
@MrJazzologist1
+J'Dinklage Morgoone Yes, you've certainly had it, mate. Big time.
@MrJazzologist1
+EgyptianMinor Yes, and many others, chum.
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@bgjobass
Exquisitely beautiful, glorious, wonderful! There’s more virtuosity in one second of Mr Garner’s music, musicianship, and talent off the charts, than the last decade of Grammy shows combined.
@MegaFount
So incredible! To be able to watch and hear this magic!
@_____7704
I only discovered this gem today... brilliant.
@Justice_H2O
So so so beautiful🎹❤️
@rurichimu
It's like a dream..that I never wanna wake up.
@uniqueenz3697
Ikrrr
@sunlitweb
This genius wrote the song and plays it like no other. Beautiful.
@YankeeClippa
+sunlitweb Wow
@sunlitweb
YankeeClippa Yes, he was a musical genius. He wrote it, so that's why he plays it with such style. He knows every perfectly placed note. Another person wrote the lyrics. Together they crerated one of the finest love songs of all time.
@exjazzbassbaz
+sunlitweb apparently on a train journey to a gig.genius for sure.many thanks.
@glauciomaciel.
Hello friends, i hope that you like this Misty Version in piano https://youtu.be/Qp-dicJUtmY
@gillesbueno1153
..know very little about piano players. But I swear I immediately recognize his style when I got the chance to listen to the radio one of his performance…🙄😵💫so magic, light and personal. ´Has ´nt been replaced so far. I’m 64, writing from France.thanks for the video.👍🏻
@Breakonthru210
So grateful that this was recorded (and subsequently digitized). Beautiful
@mikelund57
I'm 45 and I love his piano playing, I've listened to him since I was in my 20s.. I discovered him early on in my teens.. My family knew jazz pianist and musicians and they played numerous musicians in the house.. Ellis Marsalis, Dr John, Oscar Peterson, Harry connick Jr and more.. I loved Errol's playing style mostly because he made it sound so easy and beautiful at the same time. I enjoy most all types of music 🎶. Lol except heavy metal.
@perrinn
I really admire this man. Hopefully one day he will be given the recognition he deserves
@joyceconklin4596
WHAT A GIFT GOD HAS GIVEN HIM N BELEIVE ME WHEN I SAY I COULD LISTEN TO HIM ALL NIGHT N DAY
@61eagles
Reading all the comments below, makes me realize even more how much I love this man's music. I have his CD's in my car and playing on the radio on continuously. For all of you who wish you could hear him live, I must share that I had the privilege of producing a concert for Erroll at Kent State University in 1965. Not only did I get to meet him, but I got to sit at the piano with him for a few minutes before the concert. Then sat front row for almost two hours of pure heavenly enjoyment. He was pure genius on the piano, and the man that taught me how to play the piano, by me having the opportunity to sit in my parents living room and listen to his vinyl over, and over, and over...and I'm still listening to this day. I miss him terribly!
@kimmysophiabrown4807
his fingers are lovers to those keys, those keys are giving everything back, they love each other. so beautiful.
@tara5138
Wow. It’s like 80 degrees in my house and his playing gives me literal chills!
@xxcrump3575
You can't afford an air-conditioning unit?
@musiconlyplease98
this is what you call ... a once in a lifetime masterpiece performance !! ..a pure treasure
Superb musical exclusivity comes in several packages. Here is one of them. Do not wait too long to open it. Majestic!
@stevemulwitz8658
WHEN THE GREAT ERROLL PLAYS--THERE IS ONE THING FOR SURE--ONE HAND A'INT WORRIED ABOUT WHAT THE OTHER HAND IS DOING!
@rabcooper2922
Moonlightin vermont
@rabcooper2922
Moonlight inVermont by erroll garner
@nigelprettyc3
Just absolutely incredible what a gift he had
@nicholasiman
God's gift! Thank you Erroll, and thank you for posting! awesome
@frankishsid2692
Imagine seeing this In notation, the way he plays it. Your eyes would cross. Marvelous!
@jeffreycraven8154
Misty can never sound again like this. Total love for this upload.
@elizabethdiblasio7825
Erroll I love you so much! When I listen to your music ... my day is
@jamessalem2825
The most flowing and fulfilling version by any pianist, effortless.
@frankielima6383
Por favor, nunca apaga essa magnífica perfomance de Misty, pelo seu autor...👏👏👏
@glauciomaciel.
Hello friends, i hope that you like this Misty Version in piano https://youtu.be/Qp-dicJUtmY
@jerrybeaver4677
Garner puts it all together this classic song misty the best of the best very beautiful song and will live on forever the best of the best
@cdstoc
Gorgeous! There are so many great covers of this song, it's great to hear it from the composer.
@eddiekent1997
Thank you. A Master of Music
@chunkygroove9038
Love it when those bass notes kick in. God, what a masterpiece...
@RADIUMGLASS
He's so underrated. You know a man's got talent when he doesn't have to look at the keys or sheet.
@dean3434
I'm thinking it might just be best if we never look at our hands and "just go with it" as the late Deems Tsutakawa said to me a few years ago during his break at Jazz Alley here in Seattle.
@konarkvinod2801
He couldn’t read sheet music anyways 😂 he was just that talented that he didn’t rely on sheet music but on some savant level sense of how the piano and harmony works
@glauciomaciel.
Hello friends, i hope that you like this Misty Version in piano https://youtu.be/Qp-dicJUtmY
@xxcrump2640
Who's underrating his talent other then you? Another thing i must say looking at the instrument that you play doesn't make you master it any better.
@xxcrump2640
@@konarkvinod2801 Erroll Garner once said people don't come to see me read music.
@comeacross9
I heard a story that someone criticized Erroll because of his inability to read music.
He responded by saying,"No one comes to watch me read."
Thanks for posting.
@moochincrawdad
Excellent - the response of a real musician! 😀
@katyhaymus1029
🎯
@the83rdtrombonist60
@@moochincrawdad And he still learned how to read music.
@andreluislacroix6457
Perfect answer. Errol Garner was a genius.
@GeatanoLeone
I'd rather lose my capacity to read music if someone says me that i could play like him.
@leeprier6503
His music brought me and my husband together in 1959. Especially Misty, that was our favorite song. We were married fifty years. Misty was so special to us. Thank you, Errol xx
@musical_lolu4811
Wow!
@ShadyRonin
That’s beautiful!
@morganplatt6762
If I lived to be a million years old, I still couldn't play the piano like that. Something special going on here.