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Erroll Garner - In Performance
Product Group: Video
Studio: Kultur Video
ISBN: B00006CXIY
EAN: 9780769775241
UPC: 032031224230
VHS Tape
Running Time: 72 minutes
Original Release Date: 2002-07-01
Theatrical Release Date: 2002-07-01
Release Date: 2002-07-01
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
SKU: V1660
Condition: Very Good
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Editorial Reviews
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Amazon.com
Pianist Erroll Garner's sheer ebullience, virtuoso technique, and endless flow of ideas are all on hand in these two 1964 performances (totaling 72 minutes) taken from the archives of the BBC. Although players like Bill Evans and McCoy Tyner were moving jazz piano in entirely new directions by that time, Garner's jaunty, florid playing, with its elements of ragtime, stride, and other old-fashioned styles, seems to exist in another world. It's an entertaining world, though, as he makes his way through a repertoire consisting largely of standards like "Just One of Those Things," "Laura," "Lover," "Honeysuckle Rose," and such, most of them featuring Garner's inimitably imaginative introductions. However, although he wrote the tune, he won't play "Misty" for you; that classic appears here only as an audio-only bonus track, an inexplicable move roughly akin to Tony Bennett not singing "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" or Tiny Tim foregoing "Tiptoe Through the Tulips." --Sam Graham
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Customer Reviews
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Just awesome!!
Rating  (5)
Date: 2008-02-05
Although I have added a comment to one review on this site I feel I must add my own because I have had so much pleasure from this DVD since receiving it.
I was lucky enough to see Errol in London at the time this special was first broadcast and much of the content here was identical to the concert I attended. So this DVD is an added bonus for me.
Errol Garner was an awesome Pianist - that slightly lagging left hand while the right improvised using block chords at phenominal tempos was simply mind-blowing. And his interpretation of ballads gives me goose pimples - beautifully thought out with so much feeling. Wonderful.
Yes, this DVD is a real gem that any lover of good music will treasure.
Peter Smith
UK
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A complete waste of time!
Rating  (1)
Date: 2007-09-04
0 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
Don't waste your money on this video tape. The TV director had no concept of directing this type of a program. He thought it was more important to show a closeup of Erroll sweating than how he was creating his style on the keyboard. I watched this video once and that was enough.
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a conversion experience
Rating (5)
Date: 2007-05-28
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
Earlier reviews well describe this CD and Erroll's playing but what I would like to add is that I think I first realized there had to be a divine consciousness after watching the second track, 'Dreamy' - for how else could such extraordinary beauty of human creation exist? Even after many watchings I will still cry with this track, or with the version of 'Misty' provided against photographic stills. Erroll doesn't look at his hands as he plays - he doesn't need to; he looks up and around, channelling music from the heavens - a master!
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A COMPLETE MUST HAVE!!
Rating (5)
Date: 2007-05-08
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
Wow, Wow, Wow!!! Goodness Gracious! What an awesome performance by a piano virtuoso. This has to be on my list of must see Piano concerts on DVD. The sound is quality is surprisingly good! I especially love watching Erroll Garner from the side camera view where you can see him work all those piano chords and progressions!
Watching this in black and white I think adds to the mood of an era gone by, a musical era that we all can fall in love with!
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Garner the Giant of Jazz
Rating (5)
Date: 2007-04-29
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
This is a must buy for any Jazz fan. Licenced by the BBC for release in the U.S. but not available over in the UK, you get two sets of Garner with bass player Eddie Calhoun and drummer Kelly Martin. Even more amazing is that when the BBC repeated Jazz 625 in the 1980's they only showed one half the show. This disc contains both halves.
As you'd expect the playing from Garner is incredible. Take 'Honeysuckle Rose' as an example. A long introduction, during which the drummer and bass player have no idea when they are supposed to come in. This features a little bit of Boogie Woogie and stride and then suddenly the tune starts and Garner is flying. The distinctive lagging right hand spells out the tune and then there are a few choruses of sparking improvisations. Then to cap it all a long stride section recalling memories of Fats Waller and culminating in a modulation through multiple keys to the finish.
Garner alternates between his uptempo swinging stuff (or occasional mambo style) with his distinctively florid ballad playing, which creates a nice contrast. The picture quality is reasonable for 1964, and the sound is pretty good. There is a bonus audio only version of Misty played over some photos of Garner performing elsewhere.
Buy it now before it becomes completely unavailable.
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