Spring is Here

Erroll Garner, piano (1921-1977)
Eddie Calhoun, bass/Kelly Martin, drums
'Spring is here' (Lyrics: Lorenz Hart)
'It might as well be Spring'
(Lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein) and
'Lover' (Lyrics: Lorenz Hart)
Music by Richard Rodgers (1902-1979)
"Erroll Garner in Performance" (1964)
Kultur/www.kultur.com

[@toreoft]

If you are sad or mad, listen to and watch this man and the day is saved.

[@ajayaymusic]

Love this comment. Well said!!

[@snekker88]

Exactly - I had a obscure and difficult private situation some years ago. Mister Garner was to the most comfort - first choice among many jazz-people.

[@johnmoorely7275]

"Genius" is over-used word but this is it. As one of is bassists said - he could play a song inside out. I have loved jazz for 50 years and I still come back to Erroll. His musical wit makes me happy.

[@ignorecorporatenews]

He WAS The best . saw / heard him live in 1975 in NYC and he was AMAZING

[@terryhammond1253]

Garner...the most original keyboard artist and piano stylist of them all. OF THEM ALL! 🎹

[@valderande2048]

Erroll Garner est heureux de jouer, il le montre, il nous transmet sa joie, mais de plus son jeu pianistique est d'une subtilité étonnante. J'avais 16 ans quand j'ai acheté mon premier vinyle "Garner" et depuis je suis devenu "Garnerian". Sa musique me réconforte dans les moments de peine comme elle me rend plus dynamique dans les moments d'allégresse. Cela dit la beauté subtile de ses accords et lignes mélodiques me paraît toujours mystérieuse, pour mon plus grand plaisir musical.

[@autumnleaves2766]

The great Erroll Garner playing the music of the great Richard Rodgers, who actually lived two years longer than Garner. Garner was a gifted composer too, with at least two hundred original compositions such as Misty, Mood Island, Dreamy, Dreamstreet, Mambo Erroll, Mambo Carmel, Play PianoPlay, Frantonality, The Loving Touch, Nightwind, Wild Music, Eldorado and many more. My favourite jazz pianist and always will be.

[@chuckvonbruns7683]

Do you know of a place where these approximately 200 originals are compiled in a list? Help!

[@perolafmohnberge7483]

I have also been looking for such a compiled list. Where can we find this.......??

[@joevald3]

There just is no one better , before or after . He made it look so effortless .

[@rosemarydiamond6448]

Doesn't look at the keyboard - can turn the piano around his little finger - look how happy and free he is. Everything works however he interprets it.

[@howardfriedland4633]

I think the piano cried when Errol finished and left it!!

[@TheRealMusic4Life]

I love how music requires you to do some work before you can extract all the beauty from it. For example, I always heard the name Erroll Garner growing up in a musical family. But we were more gospel/soul oriented. I listened to Garner and others and the music seemed boring to me, even though the players were obviously super talented. But the work I'm speaking of is LEARNING THE SONGS!!! I never played jazz much until I was asked to play for a couple of jazz artists in my area. This opened up my ears to the vastness of music, particularly jazz. It was in learning standards and other popular tunes that made me now be able to go back and listen to greats such as Erroll Garner, Wynton Kelly, Bud Powell, etc. and actually be familiar enough with what they were playing in order to even be able to recognize the greatness that they were executing. Kind of a wordy explanation, I know, but it's really the truth. I know so many talented cats on various instruments who still don't listen to jazz like that - and it's because they don't understand it. They don't know the tunes. Once you know the tunes, the appreciation for greats like Garner rise to a new level!

[@charlesliles3918]

What a God -given talent.

[@waldolydecker8118]

True, God gives us all talent but you don't get to this Carnegie Hall-level of performance without also adding to your talent additional years of study and practice, practice, practice.

[@789armstrong]

Born with the gift of music times 10.

[@douglasford5904]

Great to listen to when I wake up and need a kick start. Thanks, Errol.

[@leazimearuom319]

Just incredible!

[@Jazzhog]

From the looks of Erroll, he must had been a real fun cat. LOVE IT !!

[@peterhunt5890]

This is just great music

[@realmishasegal]

Maybe the most uplifting Jazz pianist that ever lived. He may not be as sophisticated as Bill Evans, or as technically perfect as Oscar Peterson or refined as George Shearing, but what is the role of music? If it can put a smile on your face for its entire duration - that is a very high goal achieved. Erroll Garner🎵

[@JasonFerguson1283]

What a great swing.

[@TheNelsonmonteiro]

The king of introductions.....

[@ronalbanese123]

Awesome Awesome Awesome!!!

[@beth_levin_piano]

pure genius.

[@evrodom9924]

so wonderful piano player

[@ingermariehaskjoldpahr1941]

Thank you Errol♥️👌🌲🇳🇴

[@jimcaro5063]

Complete and total mastery of the keyboard plus joy

[@sumaarc46]

..Thanks very much..for this Great Artist.....I truly believe Art Tatum and Erroll Garner, were the two greatest talents in the 20th Century. Oh yeah.....thanks again...Danny Barrett

[@angusbrownfield8901]

Garner could play the same jazz standards gig after gig and they never sounded the same. He was a genius.

[@youkali22]

Many many thanks for this!

[@rudbeckie1]

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SKVĚLÉ !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DÍKY !

[@horacetumela1260]

Admirable

[@photo161]

The 88 keys were not enough for Garner's genius Absolutely none of the great pianists so totally exploited and fulfilled the potential of the keyboard. as did Errol Garner, the all-time King of the Keyboard!

[@jackl3586]

a music teacher once told a student: hand me that piano, I will teach you to play just like that and it will be time for you to go. years later he left, discouraged and depressed...

[@perolafmohnberge7483]

If this was recorded in 1964 then it is probably somewhere in Europe. I know he had a great concert in Manchester that year. Could it be from this.....?

[@stefanorizzuto8352]

London

[@rootstudioschool]

The tunes are "It Might as Well Be Spring" followed by "Lover."

[@jiyujizai]

❤️🍀😃🌷

[@gemini2757]

1: 57 😄Genius

[@davidreidenberg9941]

The guy couldn’t read a note.

[@thelabMediaworks]

Carol Sloane "Spring is here" with Roland Hanna & George Mraz - kzbin.info/www/bejne/fpPEp32Qm5d4mtE

[@mariatobe2205]

Jonsey Fuller I dont get it explain that to me why he left and was depressed, @diiscouraged because the piano teacher would teach him to play like that. Seems He would have Happy. I DONT GET IT YOU DONT EXPLAIN CLEAR . thank you maria.

[@JerryAttric42]

i grew up listening to Erroll Garner and loved his playing. but my listening experience was limited to rare Tonight Show appearances. not until the 80s (and the advent of DVDs) did i get to enjoy him at length. and i find the showbiz antics of the bass player and drummer, who pretend not to know what Garner is going to do next is a minor turn-off.

[@didiersartiaux1975]

le maitre

[@peterashford7855]

oui! je suis d'accord

[@mariatobe2205]

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[@jamesgaches7449]

12 people have no elegance or class whatsoever pity