Errol Garner – I love the way he takes a standard and puts in his variations and yet you are still aware of the melody. His chords are out-of-site, they verge on being out of tune and yet they resolve and keep me smiling. I do not the jazz musician that is so far from the original song that it almost sounds like that last one he played. We were playing an old Sinatra standard called witchcraft. The sax player for that night took the solo and went off to a someplace ?? After about 9 measures he leans over and asks, “What song are we playing”. Aaaaaaaaaaah!

I will never stop being amazed with the music that comes from these types of musicians, they have to be the ultimate in imagination.

John C.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VhKbE_pf_E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VHUpGxFJJ8