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Erroll Garner
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American jazz pianist and composer (1921–1977)
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Erroll Garner, born Erroll Louis Garner in Pittsburgh on 15 June 1921, was an American jazz pianist and composer. He began his musical career in 1944 and recorded for Columbia Records, Mercury Records, Verve Records and Savoy Records, working until 1976. Garner, who was African American, received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He died of cardiac arrest in Los Angeles on 2 January 1977 and was buried at Homewood Cemetery.
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Film & TV
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Known for
- Misty - The Erroll Garner Story — Jazz Pianist2024
- Erroll Garner: No One Can Hear You Read — Self2013
- …Sings Musicals — Self (archive footage)2012
- Jazz Icons: Erroll Garner Live In '63 & '64 — Himself2009
- The Pearl Bailey Show — Self1971
- The Flip Wilson Show — Self1970
- Negresco1968
- The Merv Griffin Show — Self1962
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson — Self1962
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson — Self (archive footage)1962
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1921
- Active to
- 1977
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 507,346
- Total plays
- 4,580,031
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Erroll Garner (1921–1977) was a U.S. jazz pianist and composer, whose distinctive and melodic style brought him both popular acclaim and the admiration of his peers. Erroll Louis Garner was born on 15th June 1921 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and began playing the piano at the age of three. At the age of seven he began appearing on radio station KDKA in Pittsburgh with a group called the Candy Kids. By the age of eleven he was playing on the Allegheny riverboats. At the age of fourteen in 1937 h
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Pittsburgh
- Place of death
- Los Angeles
- Occupation
- recording artist
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Genre
- jazz
- Instrument
- piano
- Record label
- Philips Records
- Image
- Portrait of Erroll Garner, New York, N.Y., between 1946 and 1948 (gottlieb).jpg
- Height
- 1.57
Show 11 more facts
- date of birth
- 1921-06-15
- date of death
- 1977-01-02
- place of burial
- Homewood Cemetery
- Commons category
- Erroll Garner
- cause of death
- cardiac arrest
- manner of death
- natural causes
- start of work period
- 1944-00-00
- birth name
- Erroll Louis Garner
- name in native language
- Erroll Garner
- end of work period
- 1976-00-00
- ethnic group
- African Americans
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