Concert by the Sea

Occupation

Concert by the Sea is a jazz album by Erroll Garner, which was taken in Carmel -by-the -Sea, California on September 19, 1955, and was published in 1956 by Columbia Records. It is considered one of the first LPs of jazz history that more than a million copies sold and which succeeded in particular, to reach an audience that otherwise rarely listened to jazz.

History of the concert

The pianist Erroll Ganer, whose popularity in the United States in the mid -1950s was based primarily on his composition Misty, was asked in September 1955 by the Entertainment Division of the U.S. Army if he would give a concert for veterans of the Korean War. The unit was stationed at Fort Ord near Carmel, a small town on the Pacific coast near San Francisco. The concert was scheduled for September 19, 1955 at Sunset Auditorium, a former church building. When it turned out that many of the soldiers were unable to attend the concert, asked the organizers Martha Glazer, who was Erroll Garner's producer, if they could not record the concert to later audition needs in the Army Hospital soldiers. Glazer agreed, but insisted that the tapes after the concert are the exclusive property of Garner's management. A jazz fan named Will Thornbury took the concert to last; Martha Glaser told him:

Music Album

Erroll Garner Trio consisted of Eddie Calhoun on bass and Denzil Best on drums. The Concert by the Sea beginning with a characteristic of Garner's introduction with the left hand, Will Friedwald wrote - " even his bassist and drummer to be, in this case Eddie Calhoun and Denzil Best hardly have a plan of what he's up to ." This intro is partially dark, heavy and serious - it increases up to the point where Garner attaches to I'll Remember April. The composed as a romantic love song song plays Garner so swinging that feels reminiscent of the surfers and the ocean breeze on a later album cover Friedwald. Garner reduces the pace in How Could You Do a Thing Like That to Me ( the title is also known as Duke Ellington's Sultry Serenade ). " The pianist shows that he is equally adept at the game to create spaces how to play notes ," said Friedwald. The main part of the album put out his feeling for the processing of classic jazz standards such as Where or When; in Red Top, he edited a 12-bar blues and its composition Mambo Carmel shows his enthusiasm for Latin American polyrhythms. At the end of the concert a short conversation developed with the Emcee, the radio host Jimmy Lyons. After the short Erroll 's Theme Lyons presented the musician and said that Garner had not yet spoken to the evening with the audience. He elicits the pianist the comment, his music speaks for itself and his voice, he said: It's worse than Louis Armstrong's ...

Publication and resonance of the shots

A publication of Concert by the Sea was initially not planned. However, when Garner and his agent abhörten recorded through the tapes, they were so excited that they were preparing for the publication of the tapes. Erroll Garner and his trio had played about 15 titles during the concert, of which eleven selected pieces as I Cover the Waterfront, Bernie 's Tune, Laura and The Nearness of You were discarded. Furthermore, it became clear that it was an excellent concert Garner though, the sound quality and balance, however, were poor, especially to the detriment of the rhythm section. It was decided to send the tape recorded with a simple tape recorder with a microphone only to George Avakian, producer at Columbia.

Garner had his contract terminated with Columbia, although only three years previously; However, as Avakian heard the tapes, he was excited and said in an interview later:

Two weeks later, Avakian had the sound quality improved to the extent that it was sufficient to publish the tapes as an album. This quickly became a bestseller; it was his greatest success in Garner's thirty-year career. Billboard listed in March 1958, the album ranked number 2 in the U.S. charts; before him lay Shelly man My Fair Lady album. Already in mid- 1963 reached the sales mark of 500,000 copies sold. The album was sold over one million times, Garner gave a growing popularity in the United States and allowed him appearances in numerous night clubs; in November 1957, shortly before his European tour, Erroll Garner was a guest in Patti Pages TV show The Big Record.

Editorial notes

The LP Concert by the Sea appeared first at Columbia (CL 883 ) in 1956, in Europe there were the same title, but with a different cover design, expenditures by Philips (B 07170 L) and Melodiya (M 60-39911-12 ). Columbia later published the recording in various couplings as a double album, approximately in the Netherlands in 1972 as This is Erroll Garner 2 (CBS Holland S 68 219 ) or 1985 in the UK Misty & Concert By the Sea (CBS 22185 ).

Columbia put 1987 first edition of Concert by the Sea on CD before (CK 40589 ). With previously unreleased material, the recordings released in 2007 with jazz beat. There is also a re-release appeared in the form of a 180 -gram LP. In the series Essential Jazz Classics was released by Discovery Records in CD form the original album, coupled with the original title (1954 ) Misty and concert recordings from the World's Fair Seattle 1962 ( with Eddie Calhoun (bass ) & Kelly Martin ( drums) ).

The title

Erroll Garner: Concert by the Sea (Columbia CL 883, CK 40589 )

Reception Album

Will Friedwald explains the immense success as follows:

Bob Rusch awarded to the album, Allmusic in the top rating of five stars and wrote

Aloof, Richard Cook and Brian Morton expressed in The Penguin Guide to Jazz on the recordings; Concert by the Sea is neither essential nor characteristic, but parts of the concert as the introduction to I'll Remember April and Red Top were the pianists of his lively side; but almost more interesting is his well-shaped processing of How Could You Do a Thing Like That to Me "

Brian Priestley raised in the Rough Guide: Jazz the Concert by the Sea album in the discography Garner out and mentioned particularly the interpretation of the standards Autumn Leaves and Red Top

C. Michael Bailey wrote in All About Jazz ( the Concert By The Sea in the list of the 10 best live albums of the years 1953-1965 ) recorded:

In an interview with AB Spellman for the National Public Radio Murray Horwitz said:

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