Misty
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Product ID: BM1 FO9609
By Erroll Garner
published: 1954
Publisher:
Belwin Mills
Arranger:
Sayre
Series:
Pop Concert Full Orchestra
Line Up:
Symphony Orchestra
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Composer
Erroll Garner (1921-1977)
Erroll Louis Garner (June 15, 1921 – January 2, 1977) was an American jazz pianist and composer known for his swing playing and ballads. His best-known composition, the ballad "Misty", has become a jazz standard. Allmusic.com calls him "one of the most distinctive of all pianists" and a "brilliant virtuoso".
Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to an African American family in 1921 (though some sources say June 15, 1923), Erroll began playing piano at the age of three. He attended George Westinghouse High School, as did fellow pianists Billy Strayhorn and Ahmad Jamal. Garner was self-taught and remained an "ear player" all his life – he never learned to read music.[2] At the age of seven, Garner began appearing on radio station KDKA in Pittsburgh with a group called the Candy Kids. By the age of 11, he was playing on the Allegheny riverboats. At age 14 in 1937, he joined local saxophonist Leroy Brown.
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