The jazz standard Misty by Erroll Garner, arranged and performed with two guitar parts (chords and solo) by Tom Watkins. The backing chords are played on a classical guitar, and the melody is played on an American Fender Stratocaster.
"Misty" is a jazz standard written in 1954 by the pianist Erroll Garner. Originally composed as an instrumental following the traditional 32-bar format, the tune later had lyrics by Johnny Burke and became the signature song of Johnny Mathis. It has been covered numerous times, perhaps most notably by Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan (1959), Lloyd Price (1963), and also by Ray Stevens (1975) as a country song. It was also used as a theme song for NBC's Today Show for most of the 1960s.
Erroll Garner's version of the song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1991, and Johnny Mathis version of the song was inducted in 2002.
In 1954 the Erroll Garner Trio introduced the instrumental "Misty." A year later Johnny Burke penned the lyrics, creating the song we know today. "Misty" remained relatively unknown until Johnny Mathis popularized the vocal version with his million-selling recording in 1959. Versions of "Misty" to make the pop charts include Erroll Garner Trio (1954, instrumental, #30), Johnny Mathis(1959, #12), Lloyd Price (1963, #21)
Ray Stevens (1975, #14).
Although it was never a number one hit, "Misty" has been performed by hundreds of instrumentalists and vocalists. Ray Stevens, who is best known for novelty songs such as "Ahab the Arab," won a Grammy Award for Best Arrangement with a hit recording he says came about by accident. During a rehearsal he and his band were fooling around and played "Misty" on a banjo, a fiddle, and a steel guitar. They liked the sound and recorded it, never expecting "Misty" would bring Stevens his second Grammy.
There are several variations of the origin of "Misty." One has Erroll Garner sitting on an airplane waiting for take off and looking out the window into the mist and observing a rainbow; another has him in the air flying from Chicago to New York; and a third simply says he was in an airplane thinking about his wife. Regardless, as a musician who could neither read nor write music, he hummed the tune to himself repeatedly while he hurried home to play his melody on the piano for transcription.
Paul McCartney has said he woke up with the melody to "Yesterday" in his head but felt he had heard it before so did not record it until verifying its originality with a number of friends. Once transcribed, Erroll Garner, like McCartney, wondered if "Misty" was a composition he had heard before but not remembered.
The success of his ballad has created an interesting irony: "Misty" is not an imitation as Garner once feared it could be but rather a source for imitation by others. The inventive and briskly changing harmonic structure is often used as the basis for jazz improvisation, one famous example being Billy Eckstine's "I Want to Talk about You."
Called "the ultimate love song," Garner wrote "Misty" in the 32-bar A1-A2-B-A2 form with no verse. For lyricist Johnny Burke, fitting lyrics to the already-written composition was undoubtedly a bit constraining. With a title like "Misty," the sentimental tone of the song was preordained.
Interestingly, this depiction of lovesick romance has not discouraged appreciative listeners, instrumentalists, or vocalists. "Misty" has become Garner's best-known composition. ASCAP named it as one of the 25 most performed standards of the 20th Century, and no other song published since 1954 has been recorded by more jazz artists except for "Satin Doll" (1958), which was originally recorded as an instrumental in 1953.
"Misty" is also notorious as the title song for the movie thriller, Play Misty for Me (1971), in which Clint Eastwood starred and made his directorial debut. Eastwood plays a late-night disc jockey who has a casual affair with one of his listeners. She in turn becomes his stalker, calling his request line several times each night, saying in her throaty voice, "Play 'Misty' for me."
"Misty's" distinctive melody is immediately recognizable by most music fans upon hearing just the first three notes. An allusion to the melody may be heard in Wes Montgomery's "What's New" on Smokin' at the Half Note, beginning in measure eight and recurring several more times later in the recording.

ERROLL GARNER play: "CARAVAN"
Composers : Duke Ellington, Juan Tizol and Irvine Mills

Piano : Erroll Garner
Bass : Wyatt Ruther
Drums : Eugene "Fats" Heard

This is me on the piano playing the well-known tune composed by the master of piano Jazz : Erroll Garner

I'm sorry for the poor sound rendition.

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Erroll Garner -Michel Le Grand Improvisation
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Can't remember the name...
You got it ! Thanks

Not much to say - I tried again to do it without mistakes - but there are some - but this is no examen - myself prefer the guys to swing big time than playing plastic without errors - Tell me if you have advise/conseil.

In part One my Arranger Keyboard wasn't following so I stopped - This is just a try out of the blue.

I still learning this song and will renew it when I make less than 3 mistakes - any comment to help me improve it is welcome.

This clip is from Dick Hyman's CENTURY OF JAZZ PIANO CD-ROM encyclopedy. An amazing stuff at all. Recorded in 1999.

live performance @ local tv-station (StudioTVL)

Mambo Carmel & It's all right with me.

By popular demand: Barney Kessel offering us moments of unsurpassed jazz guitar artistry in a set of venerable standards sometime in the 70s...

Erroll Garner - Fly Me to the Moon From a tv show in Brussels, Belgium in 1964

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played by Nubo(amateur pianist)

On The Street Where You Live/I Could Have Danced All Night
From "In Performance"
Recorded 1964 from BBC TV
Kelly Martin - Drums
Eddie Calhoun - Bass
One of the best jazz pianists ever brings his audience/yours truly to life by making that piano talk.
Watch till the end!

belgium 1966, the great Erroll Garner, my great master!!!

misty erroll garner standard jazz

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Garner plays this beautiful song with his unique style...recently I have spoken with Oscar Peterson and with him I remembered Erroll and Oscar said:"oh..Garner Garner..and he didn't know to read the music..." I said to Oscar:"for me there are 3 pianojazzplayers..Art Tatum, Erroll Garner and you!" and he smiled...Donnajazz!!!it is for you...

Garner plays his composition, he is unique...

Garner plays and the peaple enjoy and scream for joy...

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Errol Garner- All the things you are - 1972 One of the most distinctive of all pianists, Erroll Garner proved that it was possible to be a sophisticated player without knowing how to read music, that a creative jazz musician can be very popular...

The shadow of your smile Garner 1972 Errol Garner- The shadow of your smile - 1972 One of the most distinctive of all pianists, Erroll Garner proved that it was possible to be a sophisticated player without knowing how to read...

My Silent Love Garner Errol 1962 Errol , just turned 41, is seen and heard here in a performance in Amsterdam in 1962. Together with drummer Kelly Martin and bassist Eddy Calhoun they bring you My Silent Love...

Where or When Garner Erroll 1962 Born in 1921 he was a self-taught pianist who never learned to read music, Erroll Garner was nevertheless one of the most popular jazz musicians of the 1950s...

in london, for BBC

Glaube Feitosa versus Errol Zimmerman at K-1 World Grand Prix 2008 Final 16.

All u have to do is send me youre account name and i fix u gm status my msn is in the movie

A short video report from the K-1 Amsterdam WGP 2008 press conference.

Errol Zimmerman Vs. Bjorn Bregy K1 World GP Amsterdam 26-04-08 Semi Final

Errol Garner, piano (1921-1977)
Eddie Calhoun, bass/Kelly Martin, drums
'Spring is here' (Lyrics: Lorenz Hart)
'It might as well be Spring'
(Lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein) and.
'Lover' (Lyrics: Lorenz Hart)
Music by Richard Rogers (1902-1979)

Documentary film done a la The Thin Blue Line, the classic Erroll Morris noir murder mystery documentary. A night that these four souls will not soon forget. A night . . . of Scrabble.

Directed and edited by Jeremy Kaszovitz

Music courtesy of Phillip Glass

The Gladiators in the studio 1975 with producer Prince Tony and engineer Errol Thompson.

Night in Havana