Comments - Erroll Garner’s ‘Concert by the Sea’ Gets a New Sound - Pittsburgh Jazz Network2024-03-29T11:12:49Zhttps://jazzburgher.ning.com/profiles/comment/feed?attachedTo=1992552%3ABlogPost%3A366369&xn_auth=noHow about hearing a gentle kn…tag:jazzburgher.ning.com,2017-06-30:1992552:Comment:4104142017-06-30T18:16:09.529ZDr. Nelson Harrisonhttps://jazzburgher.ning.com/profile/NelsonHarrison
<p>How about hearing a gentle knock on your front office door one morning....walking over, thinking it might be some salesman...jerking the door open briskly....standing right there....eye to eye...less than a foot away....impish grin ...was Errol himself...who had heard us play Autumn Leaves from the Monterey album...as he was driving past the Hilton...impulsively turned in and .....ill never forget the moment or the impromptu interview I recorded which followed. Saw him in concert at…</p>
<p>How about hearing a gentle knock on your front office door one morning....walking over, thinking it might be some salesman...jerking the door open briskly....standing right there....eye to eye...less than a foot away....impish grin ...was Errol himself...who had heard us play Autumn Leaves from the Monterey album...as he was driving past the Hilton...impulsively turned in and .....ill never forget the moment or the impromptu interview I recorded which followed. Saw him in concert at Stanford, Honolulu, and at the Embers in Manhattan.</p>
<div>Truly a genius performer, especially in person.</div>
<div>Still have the album.</div>
<div>---John Weiser</div> Hey Nelson,
You just jogged…tag:jazzburgher.ning.com,2017-06-29:1992552:Comment:4102752017-06-29T20:11:18.829ZDr. Nelson Harrisonhttps://jazzburgher.ning.com/profile/NelsonHarrison
<div>Hey Nelson,</div>
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<div id="aolmail_AppleMailSignature">You just jogged my memory and tugged at my heartstrings!!</div>
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<p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This album was the first time I ever heard this guy!!</span></p>
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<div>Hey Nelson,</div>
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<div id="aolmail_AppleMailSignature">You just jogged my memory and tugged at my heartstrings!!</div>
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<p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This album was the first time I ever heard this guy!!</span></p>
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<div id="aolmail_AppleMailSignature"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I was14, 15 and it was an album my father brought home one day. </span></div>
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<div id="aolmail_AppleMailSignature"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I played it every day after school when nobody was home so I could play "air drums" along with Denzil DaCastro Best. </span></div>
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<div id="aolmail_AppleMailSignature"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Autumn Leaves", was rhapsodic. </span></div>
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<div id="aolmail_AppleMailSignature"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"It's Alright With Me" was on fire!!!!!</span></div>
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<div id="aolmail_AppleMailSignature"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The coincidence of me living and working in Monterey less than ten years later is beyond wonderful!!!!</span></div>
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<div id="aolmail_AppleMailSignature"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Though I never got to see the man live, Ernie Washington was n Honolulu was a close second. </span></div>
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<div id="aolmail_AppleMailSignature"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">And thanks to you here it comes again!!!</span></div>
<div id="aolmail_AppleMailSignature"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Unsolicited and happily so. </span></div>
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<div id="aolmail_AppleMailSignature"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But now we have more!!</span></div>
<div id="aolmail_AppleMailSignature"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Great backstory on the event and Ms Glaser's tenacity. </span></div>
<div id="aolmail_AppleMailSignature"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Where do I get that new boxed set?</span></div>
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<div id="aolmail_AppleMailSignature">Many thanks for keeping the big circle moving. </div>
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<div id="aolmail_AppleMailSignature">Michael C. Gwynne -</div>
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