Erroll Garner & Billy Taylor - Separate Keyboards (1993)

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Artist: Erroll Garner & Billy Taylor
Title: Separate Keyboards
Year Of Release: 1993
Label: Savoy Jazz [SV-0223]
Genre: Jazz, Bop
Quality: FLAC (tracks + .cue,log)
Total Time: 34:31
Total Size: 125 MB(+3%)
WebSite: Album Preview

Tracklist

Erroll Garner
01. Cottage for Sale (Couley-Robinson) - 2:59
02. Rosalie (Porter) - 3:05
03. Everything Happens to Me (Adair-Dennis) - 3:06
04. Stairway to the Stars (Malneck-Parish) - 2:51
05. September Song (Weill) - 3:08
06. All the Things You Are (Hammerstein-Kern) - 3:03
Billy Taylor
07. Mad Monk (Taylor) - 2:40
08. Solace (Taylor) - 2:37
09. Night and Day (Porter) - 2:44
10. Alexander's Ragtime Band (Berlin) - 2:47
11. Misty Blues (Taylor) - 2:50
12. The Bug (Taylor) - 2:41

personnel :

#1:
Erroll Garner - piano
John Simmons - bass
Alvin Stohler - drums
Recorded on March 29, 1949.
#2-6:
Erroll Garner - piano
Leonard Gaskin - bass
Charlie Smith - drums
Recorded in August 1949.
#7-10:
Billy Taylor - piano
Al Hall - bass
Jimmy Crawford - drums
Recorded on March 20, 1945.
#11,12:
Billy Taylor - piano
John Hardy - tenor saxophone
Milt Page - organ
John Simmons - bass
Shadow Wilson - drums
Recorded on November 20, 1949.

For this CD (put out by the Japanese Denon label), there are six selections apiece from pianists Erroll Garner and Billy Taylor. The Garner titles (which are also available elsewhere) are rhapsodic ballads that are both melodic and whimsical. The Taylor sides include the four songs that he cut at his very first session as a leader (March 20, 1945) plus two cuts made with a quintet (comprised of tenor saxophonist Jon Hardee, organist Milt Page, bassist John Simmons and drummer Shadow Wilson) in 1949. Despite the brief playing time (just 36 minutes) and lazy packaging (which includes three major misspellings on the back cover), the music is enjoyable and worth picking up if it can be found at a budget price.~Scott Yanow

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