June 15, 2015 – Erroll Garner’s Birthday
ERROLL GARNER’S THE COMPLETE CONCERT BY THE SEA TO BE
RELEASED ON 60TH ANNIVERSARY WEEKEND SEPTEMBER 18, 2015
FEATURING 11 PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED TRACKS, BONUS
ANNOUNCER COMMENTARY, NEVER-BEFORE-HEARD
INTERVIEWS WITH THE GARNER TRIO IMMEDIATELY
FOLLOWING THE CONCERT AND PRODUCED BY GERI ALLEN
AND STEVE ROSENTHAL
Iconic Jazz artist Erroll Garner’s greatest concert album and one of the
best selling jazz albums of all time, The Complete Concert By The Sea will
be released jointly by Sony Legacy and Octave Music Publishing
Corporation on September 18, 2015 – in celebration of 60 years since
the original concert.
The set is available for pre-order on Amazon here:
http://smarturl.it/EG_TCCBTS_Amzn
The complete live concert recording – newly uncovered by the Erroll Garner Jazz
Project and digitally remastered in its entirety after six decades – is produced by
Guggenheim® Award-winning jazz pianist and Director of Jazz Studies at the
University of Pittsburgh Geri Allen and 4-time GRAMMY®Award-winning producer
Steve Rosenthal. The Complete Concert By The Sea will introduce a new generation to
Erroll Garner and his innovative piano playing. The 3-CD box set contains the
complete live Concert By The Sea including 11 previously unreleased tracks, the
original edited Columbia release from 1956 (digitally restored and remastered at
The Magic Shop, NYC using the Plangent Process) and bonus material including
announcer Jimmy Lyons and interviews with the Erroll Garner trio: Denzil DaCosta
Best, Eddie Calhoun, and Garner himself, recorded directly after the concert.
Concert By The Sea originally produced in Carmel, California as part of local
promoter Jimmy Lyons’ “Sunset Series” laid the groundwork for the beginnings of
the renowned Monterey Jazz Festival. Appropriately, on September 18, 2015 the
58th Monterey Jazz Festival will highlight this highly anticipated release in a rare
historic tribute performance featuring Geri Allen, Jason Moran, Christian Sands,
Jimmie Cobb, Russell Malone and Darick Oles. The Festival will also feature a special
Concert By The Sea panel on September 19, 2015 including Geri Allen, Steve
Rosenthal, and Monterey Jazz Festival Board Member (who attended the original
Concert By The Sea) Jim Costello, moderated by Erroll Garner Jazz Project Director
and Ethnomusicologist Jocelyn Arem.
Liner note writers include Geri Allen, Award-winning author and UCLA American
Studies Professor Robin D.G. Kelley, PHd, and GRAMMY® Award-winning jazz
writer Dan Morgenstern who writes: “I don't think I need to tell you how significant
a figure Erroll Garner is in the history of American music. His artistry transcended
categories over four decades. Without ever saying a word or indulging in showbiz
trimmings, he could just play the piano and hold thousands enraptured.”
Sony Legacy President Adam Block remarks, “Concert By The Sea is a marvelous,
mystical album that has been allowed to dangle on the periphery of broader
recognition for far too long. Now for the first time, the complete recording and the
remarkable story of this masterpiece can be heard and understood in all its glory.
This really is a significant release – critically important to the preservation of one of
the truly epic moments in live recorded performances."
Producer Geri Allen remarks, “Erroll Garner personifies the joy of fearless virtuosity
and exploration. One of the defining precursors to bebop, piano giant Erroll Garner
embodied the very spirit of swing and free improvisation from every vantage point.
His playing celebrated the greatest swinging big bands through an innovative and
impossible pianism. Singular yet all embracing, Garner blurred the line between
great art and popular art, and he was a staunch journeyman of the blues and his
Pittsburgh legacy.”
TRACK LISTING FOR COMPLETE CONCERT
DISC ONE
1) Announcer: Jimmy Lyons (Previously unreleased)
2) Night And Day (Previously unreleased)
3) Spring Is Here (Previously unreleased)
4) I'll Remember April
5) The Nearness Of You (Previously unreleased)
6) Where Or When
7) Sweet And Lovely (Previously unreleased)
8) Lullaby Of Birdland (Previously unreleased)
9) Mambo Carmel
10) Teach Me Tonight
11) Will You Still Be Mine (Previously unreleased)
12) I Cover The Waterfront (Previously unreleased)
13) Bernie's Tune (Previously unreleased)
14) How Could You Do A Thing Like That To Me?
15) It's All Right
DISC TWO
16) Announcer: Jimmy Lyons (Previously unreleased)
17) They Can't Take That Away From Me
18) Autumn Leaves
19) S'Wonderful (Previously unreleased)
20) Laura (Previously unreleased)
21) Red Top
22) April In Paris
23) Caravan (Previously unreleased)
24) Erroll's Theme / Announcer: Jimmy Lyons (Previously unreleased)
TRACK LISTING FOR ORIGINAL EDITED CONCERT
DISC THREE
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 When
11) Erroll’s Theme
12) Post Concert Interview: Will Thornbury with Erroll Garner, Eddie Calhoun,
Denzil DaCosta Best: September 19, 1955 (Previously unreleased)
ERROLL GARNER ARCHIVE DONATED TO UNIVERSITY OF
PITTSBURGH
A year-long 60th Anniversary celebration of Concert by the Sea in 2015 will include a
new interactive website at www.errollgarner.com, and thanks to the diligent
collecting and preservation of Erroll Garner’s recordings, memorabilia, photographs
and other materials by Erroll’s longtime manager Martha Glaser, the establishment
of the first complete Erroll Garner archive at the University of Pittsburgh in Erroll’s
hometown. These resources will provide a unique view of Erroll Garner’s influential
career.
University of Pittsburgh’s Bettye J. and Ralph E. Bailey Dean of the Kenneth P.
Dietrick School of Arts and Sciences writes, “The Erroll Garner archive is an amazing
legacy of a renowned jazz icon, a brilliant piano virtuoso, and one of the most
original and individualistic pianists in the jazz narrative. Jazz is a unifiying force,
bringing a uniquely American musical synthesis and spirit of innovation through the
African-American experience. I hope the University of Pittsburgh can contribute to
that through providing a permanent home for the Erroll Garner Archive.”
The Erroll Garner Jazz Project preserves and promotes the cultural and musical
legacy of renowned pianist Erroll Garner. Proceeds will benefit African American
Jazz programs.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT:
Legacy Recordings/Media Relations
Gabby Gibb, Media Relations 212-833-4597 Gabby.Gibb@sonymusic.com
www.legacyrecordings.com
Erroll Garner Jazz Project
Jocelyn Arem, Erroll Garner Jazz Project Manager
jocelyn@errollgarner.com www.errollgarner.com
University of Pittsburgh
Sharon Blake, University of Pittsburgh News Services
412-624-4364
blake@pitt.edu http://www.music.pitt.edu/graduate/jazz-studies
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