Erroll Garner

Erroll Garner – Campus Concert (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 38:07 minutes | 806 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Mack Avenue Records

The Octave Remastered Series represents the heart of Erroll Garner’s recorded catalogue. Spanning 12 albums recorded and released between 1959 and 1976, this collection of music is among the most important in the history of jazz. It represents an artist in his prime, with full creative and commercial control of his output following his break with Columbia Records. All of these albums were owned by Garner’s Octave Records and licensed for release on a variety of iconic labels, including MGM, ABC, Philips, Mercury, Reprise, MPS, and more. Over 20 years ago these albums were bundled on to double album CDs and released by Telarc in a 6 CD box set. While this was appropriate for the era, this repackaging of Garner’s discography caused some material to be cut for time. It is now time to untangle his discography and restore each of these 12 records to their original artistic statement. The series will include newly restored transfers of the original master tapes, painstakingly remixed and mastered by Octave’s GRAMMY winning team of producers and engineers. The restoration process includes the groundbreaking Plangent process that corrects the speed and pitch inconsistencies introduced by tape machines, and delivers Garner’s pristine performance as it was meant to be heard. The original artwork has also been restored by Octave’s award winning design partners White Bicycle. In addition to each classic record, Octave has chosen to include newly discovered previously unreleased bonus material from the Garner catalog in each release including new Garner compositions and extended musical introductions. This is the final live concert album released by Erroll Garner during his lifetime. It showcases the pianist in rare form, flanked by his classic trio and performing for an attentive and receptive audience of mostly young fans. This new edition includes a previously unreleased version of his rarely recorded “La Petite Mambo,” as well as fully restored musical introductions from the original masters.

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Erroll Garner – A Night at the Movies (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 37:19 minutes | 1,08 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Mack Avenue Records

This classic Erroll Garner album from 1965 contains music from some of the last studio sessions of Garner’s longest running trio, with Eddie Calhoun (bass) and Kelly Martin (drums). After nearly a decade of touring and recording together, they function here as an uncanny musical unit, deftly navigating Garner’s twists and turns. Here are a dozen of his favourite deep cuts from the movies he loved.

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Erroll Garner – A New Kind of Love (Remastered) (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 41:58 minutes | 1,50 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Mack Avenue Records

While the emotionally charged music of Erroll Garner is particularly well suited for the big screen, and has been used in countless films over the years, he only ever composed this one film score. A natural orchestrator and with an uncanny ability to sound like an entire orchestra by himself, on this record Garner makes singular use of a 35-piece orchestra to bring his music to new heights.

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Erroll Garner – Magician (Octave Remastered Series) (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192,2 kHz | Time – 42:20 minutes | 1,53 GBGenre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Mack Avenue Records

The selections Garner committed to tape in the fall of 1973 include what may be some of his best original compositions, alongside a series of timeless contemporary takes on American Songbook classics. Though it would turn out to be the final studio album of his life, it makes clear that Garner was continuing to innovate on his distinctly individualistic style, and surely would have for decades to come.
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