Concert By The Sea

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Release Date: 20 March 2020

Label: American Jazz Classics

Packaging Type: Digipak

No of Units: 1

Barcode: 8436559467537

Genres: Jazz

Release Date: 10 May 2024

Label: 20th Century Masterworks

Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)

No of Units: 1

Barcode: 8436563185403

Genres: Jazz

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LIMITED EDITION 6-PANEL DIGIPAK + COMPREHENSIVE INSIDE BOOKLET

Presented here is the complete original Erroll Garner album Concert by the Sea (Columbia CL-883), which marked the pianist's best-selling record ever. There was actually no official plan to record the concert. The release came about because Garner's personal manager, Martha Glaser, spotted that a tape recorder was running backstage and decided to use the tape, a tape originally intended for broadcast by the Armed Forces Radio Network. Included in this superb package are ten bonus tracks from the same period and with the same trio members.

ERROLL GARNER, piano
EDDIE CALHOUN, bass
DENZIL BEST, drums
Live in Carmel, California, September 19, 1955.

AllMusic "Concert by the Sea is certainly one of the biggest albums in jazz history, selling over 225,000 copies in the first year after its 1956 release and turning into such a steady seller over the next few years, it reportedly brought Columbia Records a million dollars by 1958 - a nice sum at any time but astronomical in the late '50s. It should've turned Erroll Garner into a full-fledged superstar and, in a way, it did." (Stephen Thomas Erlewine)

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180-GRAM LIMITED EDITION RED VINYL - COMPLETE ALBUM + BONUS TRACK. Contains new specially prepared liner notes by Penguin Guide to Jazz's writer BRIAN MORTON and by Paris' prestigious JAZZ MAGAZINE
The complete original Erroll Garner album Concert by the Sea (Columbia CL-883), which marked the pianist's best-selling record ever. There was actually no official plan to record the concert, and the release came about because Garner's personal manager, Martha Glaser, spotted that a tape recorder was running backstage and decided to use the tape, originally intended for the Armed Forces Radio Network.
As a bonus, a live version of the perennial Garner composition "Misty," performed by the same trio the following year, has been added to this special edition.
"Concert by the Sea is certainly one of the biggest albums in jazz history, selling over 225,000 copies in the first year after its 1956 release. It should have turned Erroll Garner into a full-fledged superstar and, in a way, it did." - AllMusic (Stephen Thomas Erlewine)
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