This is the first time I have heard Andy Williams do cabaret jazz, and he was wonderful at it. The best American baritone of the 20th century, with the exception of Sinatra.
What a nice, happy and relaxed atmosphere. So very un-21st century. Great Garner, and Andy Williams is the personification of 'suave'. They should live for ever.
Well done from both of these professionals. Yaaaah... Erroll is a phenomenom, but kudos to Andy too !! He held his own and wove a thread through the session to make it swing and be entertaining at the same time, in his own way, as well. Both these gentlemen accomodated and respected each other's abilities while each irrepressibly shone in their own rite. That's not only entertainment... that's jazz ! @%*
@@divvy1400yam600 Why is it a surprise ? Andy Williams's Roots was in the great American songbook. He did branch out more in the late 1960s towards the singer songwriter genre, but his roots as stated has always been in the traditional popular forms.
@@josephvu9913 All I can say is read Zoox Coby's comment which is totally accurate. Errol when playing mid tempo is a 'phenomenon' And Willams kept the session 'going' The songbook is not central to the points being made
Errol was only 5'2" tall and often had to sit on telephone books . He took a few lessons and realized he didn't want to learn to read music which is ridiculous, as did the late fantastic jazz clarinetist Pete Fountain who couldn't read as well. Errol died so young. I have no idea how these guys did that. It would be like trying to learn to read, but you're blind(?) Most of us have no real idea..
I'm always amazed by people like Errol and other folks who cannot read and play great music. I play a lot of piano but if I couldn't read I wouldn't be able to play as much as I do
@@ragpiano Very few jazz players can play a lick of classical, and I reckon their problem is they can't read. On top of that, classical takes training.
Errol is a genius, this is so awkward,the crowd doesn't understand him and he won't sing. Williams cant sing in that key but gets thru it wo a trainwreck
Jerk Andy Williams put the great Erroll on the spot a bunch of times in this video. But Erroll held his own over Williams and his 'plastic' delivery. Hmph!
Andy was NOT a jerk. This is the information about that unusual medley. " Billboard featured this quote about it by arranger Eddie Karam (who had worked on Andy's "Born Free" album and subsequent projects): "One of the most interesting projects Andy's ever worked on was a medley he did last summer with Erroll Garner in the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles. All the tunes were done entirely in one key. "The sequence of songs was a long-time dream of his. He thought it was applicable with Erroll Garner, where they could toss numbers back and forth rather than have rigid arrangements. He felt it would be a lot of fun to have that freedom. "Actually, it was a spontaneous bit. It was rehearsed, in the sense that we spent three hours piecing it together, but he would change the order around or change the lead-in lines, or he'd come up with some new lines; he'd embellish it every night. We really never knew what he was going to do. Sometimes it was disastrous, but he always worked his way out of it beautifully, and it became a very good segment of that show. He wasn't too definite about what he wanted, and that's why it took us so long to set it up."
