Subscribe to our monthly new music newsletter and receive updates on new releases, Free Samplers and more.
We’ll also notify you about special events in your area.
Your cart is empty!
Never miss a Sale or New Release! Sign up for our Newsletter
News
SORT BY:
Latest Releases
SHOW ME:
-
Erroll Garner’s ‘A Night At The Movies’ Reissue Radiates Joy
11.19.19
Erroll Garner, 1964, giving a big Hollywood buildup to "I Found A Million Dollar Baby (At The Five And Ten Cent Store)" (ph) - a song from 1931. It's from his album "A Night At The Movies," my favorite so far from the ongoing Octave Remastered Series of Garner albums. They're being issued one a month through next June. As an album concept, songs from the movies is about as loose as it gets. This one's even looser because some songs, like that last one, actually come from Broadway. A few selections are older than talking pictures, like 1913's "You Made Me Love You," a vehicle for Al Jolson, who did it slower than Erroll Garner does.
-
Hear a Taste of Erroll Garner at the 1962 Seattle World’s Fair, From a Deluxe New Reissue Series
10.31.19
This was the third release on Octave Records, which Garner had established with his manager, Martha Glaser. Originally distributed by Philips, it has never had a fully dedicated reissue.
That’s about to change, thanks to the Octave Remastered Series. A joint initiative of Mack Avenue Records and the Erroll Garner Jazz Project, it’s a batch of reissues spanning Garner’s total output on Octave: 12 albums from the 1960s and ‘70s. The first four — along with One World Concert, they include Dreamstreet, Closeup in Swing and A New Kind of Love — land on Sept. 27.
-
The True Story of Erroll Garner, the First Artist to Sue a Major Label and Win
11.22.19
However, you have to dial back to 1960 to find the major precedent: when star jazz pianist Erroll Garner sued Columbia Records for breaking his contract — and won after a nearly three-year battle in a New York Supreme Court decision.
It was a landmark case that has been largely forgotten. “The Erroll Garner story is an important one,” says UCLA history professor and author Robin D.G. Kelley. “The context is the ‘50s at the height of Garner’s power. He was winning DownBeat polls and other international prizes. He was at the top of his game, and his manager, Martha Glaser (pictured above, right, with Garner), had worked out a contract with Columbia with an unprecedented clause giving Erroll the right to approve the release of any of his recorded music.”
-
Ugly Beauty: The Month In Jazz – September 2019
10.31.19
A really cool set of reissues came out this month, too, from a pianist who’s revered in certain circles but whose legacy isn’t what it should be. Erroll Garner was a hugely successful pianist and composer of the standard “Misty”; his 1955 album Concert By The Sea was massive at the time, and was reissued as a three-CD set in 2015.
Latest Posts
2 days ago
As we remember Ana’s 14 BDay 💜 this weekend, today’s #HymnOnSunday is 1 she liked to sing w her brother, “Come Thou… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@jimmygreene
3 days ago
Enjoy a preview of @conniehanjazz, a remarkable dynamo among the new generation of jazz artists, performing Neal He… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@MackAvenueMusic