One World Concert (Remastered) Erroll Garner

• 1 The Way You Look Tonight (Live) 04:54
• 2 Happiness is a Thing Called Joe (Live) 05:11
• 3 Sweet and Lovely (Live) 05:39
• 4 Mack the Knife (Live) 04:59
• 5 Other Voices (Live) 05:00
• 6 Lover Come Back to Me (Live) 04:34
• 7 Misty (Live) 04:55
• 8 Movin' Blues (Live) 06:09
• 9 Dancing Tambourine (Live) 01:28
• 10 Thanks for the Memory (Live) 01:12
• Total Runtime 44:01

Info for One World Concert (Remastered)

This was Garner’s first concert album after his chart topping Concert By The Sea, recorded seven years earlier. A tour-de-force performance makes this a worthy successor, complete with his trademark improvisational fireworks. This new presentation includes extended introductions as well as an unreleased version of the Garner ballad “Other Voices,” which has never been issued in a trio arrangement.

Garner’s performance would yield One World Concert, his first live album since the world-beating Concert By the Sea. (On the cover of One World Concert, a subhead declares: Recorded in Actual Performance at Seattle World’s Fair.) This was the third release on Octave Records, which Garner had established with his manager, Martha Glaser. Originally distributed by Philips, it has never had a fully dedicated reissue.

Erroll Garner, piano
Eddie Calhoun, double bass
Kelly Martin, drums


Digitally remastered

Erroll Garner
is one of the most distinctive pianists of the jazz genre. Other than Thelonious Monk, no one is more identifiable or harder to imitate. A self-taught virtuoso, Garner devised a solo style that eliminated rhythm accompaniment. His hands worked totally independent of each other. With block chords he set the rhythmic tempo in his left hand, and with his right, he embellished on the tune, taking liberties with melody and time, often lagging behind the beat. Some jazz purists dismissed him because he maintained his style throughout his career and enjoyed popularity unknown to most jazz artists. But Garner’s interpretive abilities and technical superiority cannot be denied.

He made frequent TV appearances, toured five continents, fronted major symphony orchestras, and composed film scores. His compositions were for jazz piano, but in 1962, when Johnny Burke added lyrics to “Misty,” Garner’s 1954 tune soared in popularity and entered the jazz standard repertoire.

Garner began his professional career at seven, playing with the Candy Kids, and at 16 he joined the Leroy Brown band. In 1944-45 he played in a trio with bassist Slam Stewart and guitarist Tiny Grimes before setting off on his solo career.

During the ‘60s Garner established his own record label. These LP’s have been reissued on CD by Telarc and reveal Garner’s sense of humor. The title cut of That’s My Kick is a new composition based on the changes of “I Get a Kick Out of You”; the lounge set song, “More,” is remade into a burner; and Garner makes “Tea for Two” fresh, playing with the time against bongo accompaniment, and alternating between piano and harpsichord. Still, Concert By The Sea (1955) is the epitome of his artistry.

His older brother Linton, who died in 2003, was also an accomplished pianist, based in Vancouver, B.C. (Sandra Burlingame)

This album contains no booklet.