Erroll Garner (1923-1977) played the piano like all was well with the world, with a flashy and elegant panache. And sometimes that's just what we need. With a swinging style that bubbled up from the ...

The brilliant self-taught pianist Erroll Garner left his mark on jazz forever. His song Misty, which he allegedly composed between two concerts on an aeroplane, immediately became one of the great ...

Listening to an Erroll Garner record is, for me, a little like the first time I drank mezcal, a distilled liquor made from the agave plant—with a worm in the bottle—in Oaxaca, Mexico. An initial sharp ...

The ingenious autodidact Erroll Garner forever changed jazz. His piece «Misty», which he supposedly composed between two concerts on an aeroplane, immediately became one of the great jazz standards ...