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Erroll Garner

Pittsburgh, United States • 1921-06-15 – 1977-01-07

Erroll Garner is credited on 5,459 releases across 1,334 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1950–2026 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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5,459

Pressings credited

1,334

Albums

8

Decades active

271

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Biography

Erroll Louis Garner (June 15, 1921 – January 2, 1977) was an American jazz pianist and composer known for his swing playing and ballads. His instrumental ballad "Misty", his best-known composition, has become a jazz standard. It was first recorded in 1956 with Mitch Miller and his orchestra, and played a prominent part in the 1971 motion picture Play Misty for Me. Scott Yanow of AllMusic calls him "one of the most distinctive of all pianists" and a "brilliant virtuoso". Garner received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6363 Hollywood Boulevard. His live album Concert by the Sea, first released in 1955, sold more than 1 million copies by 1958, and Yanow's opinion of the album is that it "made such a strong impression that Garner was considered immortal from then on."

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5,459 releases · 1,334 albums · active 1950–2026

  • Performance · 7,084
  • Other credits · 186

Studios: Deutschlandhalle · Tivoli, Copenhagen · Aoi Studio · C.P. MacGregor Studios

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