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Erroll Garner by Trevor
==Erroll Garner was born in June in the year of 1921 and died on Januarylearn 1977. Garner even had a twin brother named Ernest who was the youngest of six other family members. He never learned to read music but he learned how to play the piano at three years old. Garner was best known for writing the song "Misty". He was both a pianist and composer. He was influenced by Fats waller and completely self-taught. Garner's high school teacher influenced him not to take lessons to play the piano because she thought he was such a good pianist. == ==Garner also formed his own three piece group. Like Fats Waller, Garner was adapted at performing both with a rythm section and unaccompanied, often establishing momentum with his sure sense of swing. Garner wrote about 200 songs including "Misty", "dreamy", and "Solitaire". In the 1940s, Garner went to New York with his unique style of playing the piano. He toured around the world from the 1940s through th 1960s. He reorded with Charlie Parker and was one of the most frequently seen jazz musicians in the 1950s and 1960s. == ==Garner's unique virtuoso technique attracted many imitators and fans. This technique included a four-beat fixed pulse of blocked chords in the left hand, using wide-spaced voicings similar to swing rythm-guitar playing, and he often "kicked" the beat in a style similar to a swing drummer. Garner was also a featured American standard in the 1971 film "Play Misty For Me". He was known as the most original and exciting pianist to appear in the jazz times. == ==**For more information on Erroll Garner go to [|www.answers.com/topic/errollgarner] or [|http://www.npr.org/artists/15367012] **/erroll-garner. ==