Concert By The Sea – Garner, Erroll – LP – Brand New Vinyl (Arrives in 20days)

The complete original Erroll Garner album
Concert by the Sea, which marked
the pianist’s best-selling record ever.
The album was taped on September
19, 1955 in the gothic-revivalist styled
assembly hall of Sunset School (now
Sunset Arts Center) in Carmel-bythe-
Sea, California. Accompanying
Garner were bassist Eddie Calhoun and
drummer Denzil Best. There was no
plan to record the concert officially. The
release came about because Garner’s
personal manager, Martha Glaser,
spotted that a tape recorder was running
backstage and decided to use the tape,
originally intended for the Armed Forces
Radio Network. Glaser took the tape,
put it into album form, and then played it
for the head of Columbia Records’ jazz
division, George Avakian, who decided
to release it.