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Campus Concert: Feeling Is Believing

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Another GREAT pairing of albums of Erroll Garner's magical, gravity-defying pianistics. Campus Concert features very special can't-keep-the-foot-still swing played in Garner's inimitable style and shines with moments of deep, colossol beauty during My Funny Valentine and Stardust. The Indiana college audience is held spellbound throughout and bursts appropriately forth into the loudest, most passionate applause you've ever heard at the close of the show. Seeing is Believing was Erroll's first recording of the 70's and flies dizzyingly and joyously through classics like For Once in My Life (who else can you think of that plays music so outrageously swinging and stunningly, upliftingly HAPPY) and Spinning Wheel, and glows gorgeously on beauties like The Loving Touch. Simply amazing music from one of the truly greatest talents in all of music.

Garner in excellent toe tapping form. This is actually a compilation of two different albums, Campus Concert was recorded live and Feeling Is Believing was recorded on a different date in the studio. I consider Feeling Is Believing to be one of Garner's finest albums ever and do not think it suffers in any way from the tunes being pop hits from the 60's rather than pop hits form the previous decades. Garner's make these tune so compelling, his versions are among the most grooving renditions I have ever heard of these famous tunes, simply marvelous!