![]() ![]() The artist in question is the one-off and self-taught jazz pianist Erroll Garner. The afterlife of an artistic legend is the thread running through this hour’s musical conversation. ![]() In the long aftermath, it’s players and critics who missed him the first time who’re finding much more in the Garner legacy: genius, for sure, but also truth, beauty, and miracles of spontaneity in a man of deep understanding. Label it easy jazz, if you weren’t listening too carefully. It was tune-centered, accessible-danceable, even. He could make the piano sound like a big band, or an orchestra and he composed enchanting new music on the fly. ![]() In his time, mid-twentieth century, Erroll Garner was a pop star on records and concert stages worldwide. This show first aired on December 17, 2020.Įrroll Garner, the jazz pianist, is undergoing an upward revaluation of the sort that artists dream of: a reputational transition forty-some years after he died. ![]()
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