Erroll Garner - Concert By The Sea [LIVE] (1955)MP3 320Kbps RS.com 65mbGenre: JazzThe sound is atrocious and the piano is out of tune, yet this live trio recording from September 9, 1955, in Carmel, California, was a bestselling album. Garner brings a wealth of imagination to every performance of every song. On uptempo numbers like "I'll Remember April" and "Red Top" he hammers away with intense left-handed figures while unleashing relentless cascades of improvised lines with his right. On ballads like "Teach Me Tonight" and "April in Paris" he plays with the softest of touches, changing tempo from verse to verse for dramatic effect. His performance of "Autumn Leaves" is so over-the-top it could have gone to parody, but not in the hands of this master entertainer. His humming, grunting vocal accompaniment--he seems to be commenting on "They Can't Take That Away from Me" as he plays it--provides a kind of side show to the performance. More than 30 years later it's still starkly original work. --John Swenson, Amazon.comAmazon.com reviewer Anthony Pizza:Sure, you can't judge a book by its cover, but a CD? Viewing the front of Erroll Garner's 1955 "Concert By The Sea," seeing majestic Pacific Ocean waves slap a Carmel coastline while a woman waves in triumph, leads you to expect grand semi-classical pieces tailored for the era's big-budget films. Or, worse, sentimental pop in the style of that era's top-selling pianist, Roger Williams. But this Erroll Garner album remains among jazz's all-time sellers and critical favorites for avoiding such tendancies. Given its acoustics (it was recorded in a converted Carmel, CA church) "Concert By The Sea" is surprisingly intimate, energetic, witty, romantic; the concert you'd expect from the composer of the classic (but missing here) standard "Misty." Garner, with stellar (though barely audible) help from bassist Eddie Calhoun and drummer Denzil Best, weaves piano trills and walking lines like spider webs around familiar melodies like "Teach Me Tonight," Cole Porter's lyrical "It's All Right With Me," a swift "Where Or When," and the delightfully drag-beat "Mambo Carnival." He delivers funky, jaunty performaces on "Red Top" and They Can't Take That Away From Me." Only the oft-covered, overdramatic "Autumn Leaves" falls flat. Garner's playing here draws effortlessly from musical styles before and around him: Fats Waller's Dixieland swing, Charlie Parker's bop (Parker played with Garner on "Cool Blues"), Nat Cole's cooler jazz piano, neo-classical and even R&B piano sounds from Charles Brown and Ray Charles. Listen to Garner's rhythmic piano chording throughout and realize that he anchored his own solo piano excursions (and inspired the similarly inclined Dave Brubeck), in near rock-and-roll bass style. Yet like the era's most beloved jazz stars (Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, to whom he unfavorably compares his voice at LP's end ) Garner remembered to entertain as well as challenge audiences. He redraws the Broadway and show tunes here, but grounds them in stop-time dramatic endings drawing enthusiastic applause. An exuberant, gleeful performance by a master pianist and entertainer, "Concert By The Sea" is essential to any jazz fan and would benefit from the remastering, extra-track treatment given other classics in Sony/Columbia's legendary jazz catalogue.
Tracks:
1. I'll Remember April
2. Teach Me Tonight
3. Mambo Carmel
4. Autumn Leaves
5. It's All Right With Me
6. Red Top
7. April In Paris
8. They Can't Take That Away From Me
9. How Could You Do A Thing Like That To Me
10. Where Or When11. Erroll's Theme
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