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  • Erroll Garner, Feeling is Believing, 1970 on Mercury

    Erroll Garner, Feeling is Believing, 1970 on Mercury

    Garner’s first album in the 1970s, with five of his own compositions plus recordings of the Beatle’s “Yesterday;” Blood, Sweat, & Tears’ “Spinning Wheel;” “For Once In My Life;” “Strangers in the Night;” and the Hal David Burt Bacharach “The Look Of Love.” Listed as “A Product of Octave Records” – who are currently reissuing…

  • Erroll Garner, One World Concert, 1963 on Reprise / Octave Records.

    Erroll Garner, One World Concert, 1963 on Reprise / Octave Records.

    Erroll Garner, One World Concert, 1963 on Reprise / Octave Records. Recorded live (“In Actual Performance”) at the Seattle World’s Fair. Octave has reissued this in their remastered series, but this is a 1963 pressing.

  • Erroll Garner, Erroll Garner, 1953 on Columbia.

    Erroll Garner, Erroll Garner, 1953 on Columbia.

    Erroll Garner, Erroll Garner, 1953 on Columbia. Mine’s a 1956 pressing, with the “six-eye” Columbia labels, with the registered trademark on “LP” Sleeve was really just two pieces of cardboard so some major surgery required, but the vinyl in pretty decent shape for 65+ years old.

  • Erroll Garner, Erroll Garner Plays For Dancing, 1956 on Columbia.

    Erroll Garner, Erroll Garner Plays For Dancing, 1956 on Columbia.

    Erroll Garner, Erroll Garner Plays For Dancing, 1956 on Columbia. Originally a 10″ record in 1953. Garner’s approach makes many of his recordings hard to dance to – as the liner notes here say: “always his work has been characterized by a rubato of a distinctively characteristic kind. In these songs, however, Garner plays for…

  • Erroll Garner, Paris Impressions, 1958 on Columbia.

    Erroll Garner, Paris Impressions, 1958 on Columbia.

    Erroll Garner, Paris Impressions, 1958 on Columbia. Multiple songs feature Garner on harpsichord, first heard on this LP.

  • Adele, 30, 2021 on Columbia.

    Adele, 30, 2021 on Columbia.

    Adele, 30, 2021 on Columbia. There are already 16 different vinyl versions of this one on discogs – colors pressing plants, etc. They had to go many plants at once for how many they expected to sell. Includes a bit of Erroll Garner sample on all Night Parking.

  • Erroll Garner, Soliloquy, 1957 on Columbia.

    Erroll Garner, Soliloquy, 1957 on Columbia.

    Erroll Garner, Soliloquy, 1957 on Columbia. Mono pressing with the six-eye Columbia label “Records always sound best on Columbia phonographs” Via Residency Records, Salem MA

  • Erroll Garner, Afternoon Of An Elf, 1955 on Mercury.

    Erroll Garner, Afternoon Of An Elf, 1955 on Mercury.

    Erroll Garner, Afternoon Of An Elf, 1955 on Mercury. Long-playing microgroove LP from the fifties. Garner cut these tunes with the index finger of his left hand in a splint!

  • Erroll Garner, Gone Garner Gonest, 1955 on Columbia.

    Erroll Garner, Gone Garner Gonest, 1955 on Columbia.

    Erroll Garner, Gone Garner Gonest, 1955 on Columbia. My copy is a 1958 pressing with the six-eye red Columbia deep-groove label. Great rendition of Bewitched Via Mystery Train in Gloucester MA

  • Erroll Garner, Magician, 1974 on MPS.

    Erroll Garner, Magician, 1974 on MPS.

    Erroll Garner, Magician, 1974 on MPS. My copy is the Vinyl Me, Please classics reissue from May 2020 – maybe my favorite from VMP so far. clean pressing, excellent remaster. You can hear Garner vocalizing while he plays on some tracks – feels like you are in the studio with him.