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- Category: Recording
- Star rank: 2029
- Address:
6345 Hollywood Blvd - Position: 3 tiles from the curb, facing west
- GPS location:
34.101733, -118.328921
Erroll Garner
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Previous star: Michele Lee
Biography
Erroll Garner
Source: Freebase
Erroll Louis Garner (June 15, 1923 – January 2, 1977) was an American jazz pianist and composer known for his swing playing and ballads. His best-known composition, the ballad “Misty”, has become a jazz standard. Allmusic.com calls him “one of the most distinctive of all pianists” and a “brilliant virtuoso”.
Fact file
- Birth name: Erroll Louis Garner
- Born: June 15, 1923 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.
- Died: January 2, 1977 (aged 53) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
- Genres: Jazz
- Occupations: Composer, pianist
- Instruments: Jazz piano
- Years active: 1944–1974
- Labels: Mercury Records Columbia Records Verve Records Blue Note Records London Records
Read more about Erroll Garner at Wikipedia or at the Internet Movie Database
Hollywood Blvd, north side, between Ivar and Cahuenga
From here you can:
- Go west and cross Cahuenga
- Go east and cross Ivar
- Cross to the south side of Hollwood near Cahuenga
- Cross to the south side of Hollwood near Ivar
Nearby you will also find Victor Young, Michele Lee, Harry Carey Jr., and many others.