Biography

Though he never learned to read music, Erroll Garner had a natural pianistic gift that gave rise to a remarkable breadth of expression, inspiring countless musicians. By turns mightily swinging, orchestral, swooningly romantic, and mercilessly outré, Garner's tumbling, percussive, and humorous style was entirely his own. Recording throughout the 1950s, '60s, and '70s almost exclusively in a trio or solo context, he regularly reinterpreted jazz standards and his own tunes, "Misty" being the best-known.

Top Tracks

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• (back Home Again In) Indiana

• A Cottage For Sale

• After You've Gone

• All The Things You Are

• As Time Goes By

• Avalon

• Baby Won't You Please Come Home

• Begin The Beguine

• Blue And Sentimental

• Blue, Brown And Beige

• Blueberry Rhyme

• Body And Soul

• Boogie Woogie Boogie

• Bounce With Me

• Caravan

• Cheek To Cheek

• Crazy Rhythm

• Dinah

• Dream Street

• Embraceable You

• Erroll's Bounce

• Exactly Like You

• Four O'clock Jump

• Frankie And Johnny Fantasy

• Frenesi

• Georgia On My Mind

• High Octane

• Honeysuckle Rose

• How High The Moon

• I Can't Get Started

• I Can't Give You Anything But Love

• I Cover The Waterfront

• I Get A Kick Out Of You

• I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart

• I Only Have Eyes For You

• I Surrender, Dear

• I Wanna Be A Rug Cutter

• I Want A Little Girl

• I'll Remember April

• I'm Confessin' (that I Love You)

• I'm In The Mood For Love

• I've Got The World On A String

• Jitterbug Waltz

• Laura

• Lazy River

• Louise

• Lover, Come Back To Me

• Mack The Knife

• Mambo Garner

• Mambo Gotham

• Mimi

• Minor With The Trio

• Misty

• Mood Island

• Moonglow

• Movin' Around

• Night And Day

• Oh, Lady Be Good!

• Oh, What A Beautiful Mornin'

• On The Sunny Side Of The Street

• One O'clock Jump

• Over The Rainbow

• Paisley Eyes

• Part-time Blues

• Pavanne (the Lamp Is Low)

• Penthouse Serenade (when We're Alone)

• Perdido

• Red Cross

• Red Top

• Relaxin' At Sugar Ray's

• Reverie

• Scatterbrain

• September Song

• She's Funny That Way

• Skylark

• Solitaire

• Spring Is Here

• St. Louis Blues

• Stardust

• Stars Fell On Alabama

• Stompin' At The Savoy

• Stormy Weather

• The Way You Look Tonight

• This Can't Be Love

• Three O'clock Jump

• Tippin' Out With Erroll

• Too Marvelous For Words

• Twistin' The Cat's Tail

• Two O'clock Jump

• What Is This Thing Called Love?

• When You're Smiling

• Will You Still Be Mine ?

• Yesterdays

• You Brought A New Kind Of Love To Me

Discography

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• Magician

  London

  1974

• Gemini

  MPS Records

  1971

• That's My Kick

  MGM

  1971

• Feeling Is Believing

  Mercury

  1970

• Up in Erroll's Room

  MPS Records

  1968

• Campus Concert

  MGM

  1966

• Easy to Love

  Verve / Polygram

  1965

• Now Playing: A Night at the Movies

  1964

• Erroll Garner Plays Gershwin and Kern

  Mercury

  1964

• A You Brought a New Kind of Love

  Mercury

  1963

• One World Concert

  1963

• Close-Up in Swing

  1961

• The One and Only Erroll Garner

  Columbia

  1960

• Swinging Solos

  Columbia

  1960

• Dreamstreet

  Paramount Records

  1959

• Erroll Garner [1959]

  Crown

  1959

• Another Voice

  Columbia

  1957

• The Most Happy Piano

  Columbia

  1957

• Erroll!

  Emarcy

  1956

• He's Here! He's Gone! He's Garner

  Columbia

  1956

• Solitaire

  Verve / Mercury

  1955

• Solo

  Mercury

  1955

• Gone-Garner-Gonest

  Columbia

  1955

• Plays for Dancing

  Columbia

  1955

• Garnerland

  Columbia

  1955

• Music for Tired Lovers

  Membran

  1954

• Garnering

  Emarcy

  1954

• Plays for Dancing [10"]

  Columbia

  1953

• Overture to Dawn, Vol. 5

  Blue Note

  1953

• Overture to Dawn, Vol. 4

  Blue Note

  1953

• Erroll Garner at the Piano

  Savoy

  1953

• Overture to Dawn, Vol. 3

  Blue Note

  1952

• Overture to Dawn, Vol. 1

  Blue Note

  1952

• Overture to Dawn, Vol. 2

  Blue Note

  1952

• Solo Flight

  Columbia

  1952

• Passport to Fame

  Atlantic

  1952

• Piano Stylist

  King

  1951

• Gems

  Columbia

  1951

• Piano Variations

  King

  1951

• Erroll Garner Playing Piano Solos, Vol. 4

  Savoy

  1951

• Gone with Garner

  Mercury

  1951

• Erroll Garner Playing Piano Solos, Vol. 3

  Savoy

  1950

• Erroll Garner Playing Piano Solos, Vol. 1

  Savoy

  1950

• Rhapsody

  Atlantic

  1950

• Erroll Garner Playing Piano Solos, Vol. 2

  Savoy

  1950

• At One of His Famous Gaslight Jazz Sessions

  1949

• Cocktail Time

  Dial

  1947