It is as if Erroll is two people at the same time. One is performing...and the other is listening and loving it.

I think I have an addiction problem. Can't... Stop... Listening.

The greatest ever. Nobody in the world comes anywhere near him. I savour every moment he will never be replaced Rest in peace Erroll.

Just so enthralling to hear how garner fashions the tune

LE plus grand pianiste au monde ! Inégalé

When he says ah or grunts , it’s as if he’s getting instructions from another being only he can hear . Simply otherworldly .

There isn't a musician that brings me more joy than Erroll Garner. This is simply sublime. He was a genius. He followed no one, and no one could follow him. To me he's the greatest.

Mr. Garner style and genius will never be duplicated! He took it to the stratosphere !

He is my favorite jazz pianist....A genius and gentle person...We can see it on his face when he is playing...Always tears coming in my eyes when i saw and listen to him!!!

I can listen every minute of the day to Erroll, never borred. It is a pity that human life is limited.

ABSOLUTE GENIUS!!!!!!!

This is just superb music he is just BRILLIANT.

The shadow of your smile....Jose Mangual, Erroll and his musicians. One of my fabulous live souvenirs in Salle Pleyel with my beloved dad

Thank God This Man walk On Earth!!!!!!!

Errol Garner, my hero.

Sensational, top quality, individual genius, artistry, smoothly rhythmical and swinging, Lord Errol...

It's a pleasure to listen to Erroll Garner. I consider it sunshine on a rainy day. I've appreciated his work for many decades.

Erroll is pouring out his soul and having a ball. Nobody comes close except maybe The great Art Tatum.

Erroll is a true genius as his playing is so original, filled with so much rhythm and so many restatements of the theme. How can he play without hardly looking at the keyboard? RIP Erroll. You are missed; I first heard your music in 1957 and have ever since been in awe.

Plays with so much elegance, sensitivity, decency. What a pleasure to listen to....

Thank you youtube for allowing me to see so much of this unique talent. I first saw him on the television when I was about 15 and was blown away. With a 40+ years love of jazz in many of its forms, I still return to Erroll as my first love.

No one has ever played the piano like Erroll. His style is his and his alone. Love it! SYLVIA! 10/21

Una belleza, Erroll Garner; una maravilla todo el conjunto!

Goosebumps and tears show how much I adore this guy. Can he swing or what???

I'am a fan of Errol Garner since 1951 and still now. Amazing there are still reactions after all that years!

Erroll garner has given me more listening pleasure than any other artist ever. He was a true genius, and god what a talent. He was the greatest pianist of them all.

He is by far the greatest pianist of the millenniums. He was called The Elf and sat on phone books. We shared a birthday. I miss him!

Complete musicianship

Grandissimo ERROL GARNER !!!…. 👍👍👍👏👏👏

Simply fantastic! Erroll and his band are most delightful to listen to. Erroll's keyboard artistry is phenomenal. Thanks for showing this performance, a Jazz Lover's delight.

The thing with Erroll, is that HE got off playing and hearing his music more than the rest of mere-mortal listeners. He's in a constant state of euphoria, brought on by his own gifted hands and genius ears.

Love Love You!.. Errol Garner!!💘

J'adore !!!c'est mon pianiste favori l'ai vu au W.-Hall à Geneve ...il y.a...!!années ! C'est une merveille

I loved this man after seconds of listening. Pure love! Thank GOD for such a beautiful person.

What a man! The chords, the rhythm, the style....

just "god on the piano" cant describe it in other words....

I'd laugh too, if I could play my piano like that! BEAUTIFUL!

His solo on The Shadow of your smile, He was really feeling it of course he does that every time he plays but this time if you ask me he was in a beautiful place called "Heaven on Earth."

Uno stile irripetibile, una genialità espressa in note che seguono un percorso più preciso di una formula matematica! Eppure Erroll Garner suonava ad orecchio!!! Ho cominciato ad ascoltarlo da bambino (mio padre era un suo estimatore e suonava praticamente come lui). Oggi, dopo 50 anni, lo ascolto sempre e mi emoziono tantissimo, come la prima volta. Grazie Erroll, mio compagno musicale di una vita!!!

When i go to heaven, if there is a heaven.... I want to meet up with this fella and get him to lay hands on me and pass on some of that amazing talent for when I next come down to earth!

You are so mised, an amazing gift too all of us, love you, you are the man, God has blessed you and made us so happy too hear your music.

Errol couldn't read a note of music! What an absolute genius

These intros are so good! Abstract and intriguing and yet inevitably yielding to the familiar warmth of the tune. They sound like they were ripped from the credits of an old Hollywood movie, there's flamboyance and drama and mystery, it's all there! I love the left hand action here too, so versatile, there's the super gentle dreamy swing, now THAT is beautiful!

Fabulous pianist to whom not enough homage is paid. A piano that replaces an entire orchestra, which Ahmad Jamal explains by the concept of "large ensemble"

Melodic for the ears & pleasing to the soul. Sheer skill in his playing of the piano. His facial expressions are also a delight to see as he performs. Lifting my Spirit. So brilliant but underrated.

a true artist- the joy evident in his face he can transfer to us the listeners. thank you Mr. Garner

Really by himself. Difficult to define genius. But certainly hugely gifted. Lovely man and brilliant piano player.

Genius endowed with an amazing technique and virtuosity and a remarkable sense of rhythm and time,it seems to have a hundred fingers when play, awesome swing, missing a lot!!!

Fantastic! Superb! Magnificent!

No song ever gave Erroll any trouble as he never played some songs in any one particular key, changing keys all the time depending on where his hands came down that moment. Carefree, he grooves like crazy in any and in every key and if I heard a song once, he could probably play it perfectly for the rest of his life. A collossal genius and beautiful person! He probably did more for planet earth than anyone who ever lived because imagine all of the people who heard and saw him were made so happy by his gift. He creates happiness and joy and fun!!! His is really timeless and irresistible and positively joyous!

Definitely one of the best pianist ever...I always thought that Peterson is the best until I heard errol graner...Definitely one of a kind

All that practice and care will always pay off thank you erroll Oscar amad and many more for infusing us with your gifts of techniques and styles.

A true purist and pioneer!

OMG - those little"rolla-roonies", 3:35 for one - whatever they are on The Shadow of Your Smile - exquisite!

Großartig that's real music real Jazz - that kind of Jazz is Classic Music

i'm so intrigued by his technique, as a classical pianist it bewilders me. how he's able to play quickly, precisely, evenly and clearly. can only hope to one day play jazz half as good. as him

Could not make me happier. Love it.

Beautiful, thank you for postig.

Lots of people can play the piano, but Errol caressed it, beat it, stretched it, made love to it and much more just to get a sound so special that can never be imitated or even copied! A true maestro of the piano he knows so well he doesn't have to look at the keys to play it materfully.

Erroll Garner is such an amazing and consummate artist, and the whole ensemble is topnotch. Thank you very much for posting.

БРАВО!Кайф!♥️🎼👏👏👏♥️

A true savant virtuoso-with his own style -Once in a Billion player. 'Does the piano care if I can read music" The piano was lucky to meet you.! Happy Jazz for the peoples -Right on!

Гений фортепьянного джаза ! Фантазия необыкновенная, чудесная техника, на клавиши и не смотрит, ему это не надо. Я в восторге. И всё с улыбкой !!! Есть такое выражение: "родился со скрипкой в руке", а вот" родился с роялем" слышать не приходилось. Так вот Гарнер -- это тот случай.

С далёкой юности люблю этого музыканта ! Многое из этого было на магнитной ленте.Прекрасное вечно.

Great! Thank you, Erroll!

Agree with Mike's remark below, Garner will always lift the spirits. He is my go to jazz musician when I need cheering up, but also when I want to learn new tunes, be they Erroll's own compositions or jazz standards. Even now this Gemini Genius, just 55 when he died on 2nd January 1977, is under-rated by some people and even scoffed at in some quarters. Ahmad Jamal (sorry if that is wrong spelling) puts Garner in the Impressionist school, seeing him as a Debussy and Ravel of jazz, adding that no one can know or understand jazz without knowing Garner's music. This is so true. Whilst Tatum and Peterson might be considered technically and harmonically better, Garner wins the prize for original improvisations, making the piano sound like a whole orchestra, changes of tempo and dynamics, sheer joyful swinging on faster numbers, exquisite ballad playing, sumptuously rich chords, great compositions of his own. Always my favourite and can never be knocked off top spot. Wish I had heard him live !

Best version of Blue Moon I have ever heard...wow.

This is a gem. Thank you for this footage!

I’m not sure there’s ever been a better pianist! He’s so sick wit it!!!😆 🔥 And I heard he never learned how to sight read! Incredible gift from God!!!🙌🏾

I can listen to Errol Garner all the time hé is genious

Errol shall be remembered for ever ( a bit like Beethoven !)

So talented!!!!

Per uno che non sapeva leggere uno spartito , posso solo dire un Genio. La mano sinistra totalmente indipendente dalla destra che faceva la melodia . Unico . Grazie per il video . Complimenti

I fell in love with Errol Garner's piano style when I heard him play "Misty". To this day it's the best version of the song.

Un amour de musicien ce mec

I've loved jazz since I became consciously aware of it back in 1994. The music was already in my ears because quite a bit of the music my parents listened to was made by jazz musicians, but also they had Ray Charles, Nat Cole albums, but categorizing music didn't happen much in my teens, then one early 1994 evening I heard an evening-full of jazz in its unadulterated form, mainly ballads played by trio's featuring piano or guitar, and it blew my mind. There are some avenues of the music which I have struggled to listen to, that, although sophisticated, seems more arid with a different type of sound, and perhaps less focus on traditional means of melodic/harmonic resolution? just different from the music of people like Errol Garner, I just find the things he plays to be so sweet lush and melodic, irresistible. Someone below referred to his playing as impressionist, maybe that's the attraction for me. But I guess it's probably a matter of personal taste, my leanings are probably conditioned by the music I was exposed to right up to my early 20's when I finally got to hear jazz (reggae, Motown, UK and US pop music, rare groove, Soul, gospel for example)

This is splendid. He appeared at my undergraduate college last century and I was pleased to be in the audience to hear his artistry. It does not get any better the this. I have made this simple request of listeners. Make and explain a comparison between Tatum and Peterson and Errol Garner. They can be found on the same branch of the jazz tree for piano music but they occupy different places on the branch with Tatum probably located closer to the trunk. Never ending embellishments made for the full effect of the improvisation to take its effect on listeners. Orchestral form of improvisation for sure has many elements not to be duplicated. It is worth its weight in gold.

Que fantastico Erroll y Sus Melodias en Super Piano ...La verdad

Magnifico

Errol Garner!! Ele eh sem a menor dúvida o melhor pianista que já vi!! Insubstituível!! Deve estar com Deus!!!!

iwas aware of him, of course, years ago but hadn't really heard him. I concentrated on guitarists but did collect Art Tatum, Oscar Peterson, Bill Evans, Hank Jones, Tommy Flanaghan, Hampton Hawes, Phineas Newborn, Jr., etc. Didn't hear a lot of Garner, Shearing, Marian McPartland and so on on the radio in the late 60's and 70's and I didn't make the effort to search their music out and listen. Very glad that something like this exists to show me what i missed.

There will be never a guy like that, compared to him all the pianists today are boring

many thanks indeed

Как же Эрролл меня радует. Всегда. Гений.❤

La sombra de tu sonrisa, jamas se oyó tan hermosa...

Excelente......!!!

En estos momentos tan complicados escuchar esta música es perfecto

Like Tatum, Billy Eckstine, Ella, Charlie Parker, Diz, Coltrane, Django, Ray Charles, Wes, James Brown, Johnny Cash, a truly singular voice unequalled!

Erroll Garner é uma dessas figuras que não deveriam morrer nunca! Maravilhoso, gênio, divino, não! Deve haver um termo muito mais alto. Não consigo encontrá-lo, mas sei que ele existe, para defini-lo.

Hacedor de emociones sentimientos lo que solo un artist puede lograr. Forma parte de la humanidad for ever❤😂😂

Gosh that intro he is playing at 5:00. So beautiful...

Qué GENIOOOO!!!!ÚNICOOO!!!DIOS MÍO,MERECE QUE LO TENGAMOS TODOS LOS DÍAS PRESENTE Y LE DEMOS UN PREMIO POST MORTEM A TODA SU MARAVILLOSA CARRERA!!!

Fantastic !!!

He ,was known to do long intro's in between tunes AND the band had to wait ,sometimes not waiting but at attention. He, then goes into a Gospel Rag at 10:38.The, Guy was a complete composition.

What a fantastic player Errol is ! A one and only !

Allí está José Mangual en las congas...Nada más y nada menos. Wow.

amazing finesse

That great intro to the second tune. Erroll was known for his extemporaneous introductions.

БРАВО

Wonderfull so great...