Erroll Garner Uncovered: EP.01 - Eric Reed / Dreamstreet
“Erroll is playing shapes and colors and ideas and that I believe is kind of the pretext for avant-garde music. The idea of breaking away from prearranged chord changes and rhythms.” - Eric Reed
ORIGINAL 1961 LP LINER NOTES
This album marks the release of the first new work recorded by Erroll Garner in almost three years. After a history-making hiatus from recording, Garner is here, playing, with the greatest freedom of his noteworthy recording career. These sides embody some of the most spirited, inventive, and moving Garner performances ever recorded.
Garner had unprecedented freedom in recording these works, a circumstance for which he, as a prolific improviser, has long striven. Time was no factor: there was room to experiment stretch out, and just "blow"-with complete surety that no material would be released without his personal approval. Garner reveled in this atmosphere as is evidenced by the material herein.
These sides are part of the work recorded by Garner and his accompanists on two successive nights. The first night, they played from 10 p.m. to 6:30 a.m.
— MARTHA GLASER
“...his own striking style...has grown more meanigful over the years...there is more depth to what Garner is now playing than ever before”