This essential theme by Erroll Garner was composed on the plane that brought the composer home after his interview with lyricist Steve Allen. The melody was already running through his head as he boarded, then the notes merged together as soon as the plane climbed. Erroll Garner played it tirelessly on KRML radio (in the city of Carmel) where he was a permanent guest. The song has been covered countless times, orchestrated with violins, guitars, choirs or saxophones, quickly becoming a jazz standard. The song was originally written in E flat, it is here transposed into the brighter key of G major in a jazz piano arrangement.more

Solitaire is a song composed by Erroll Garner with lyrics by Steve Allen. The title was released on the eponymous album a long time ago. This record is a bit like a Proust Madeleine, a refuge object, a moment of poetry and abandonment. Erroll Garner making his piano sing with simple Jazz harmonies, few enriched chords, but his voicings were very fine and his sense of timing legendary. I allowed myself more freedom in this solo piano interpretation, such is the Jazz mood. Enjoy your escapade!more

This little-known piece by Astor Piazzolla brings to mind the onset of winter, a time when the mildness of autumn gives way to rougher, more extreme conditions, when we rejoice at a generous snowfall observed from our living room, the atmosphere warmed by a nice blaze in the fireplace, and also the time for family reunions and moments shared with friends. Piazzolla's original composition does not rely on virtuosity or demonstration, but rather on simplicity and contrasting affirmation of the theme. In the same spirit, I've chosen a reduced orchestration, while the arrangement exploits the percussive register of the instruments, like laughter or bursts of voice resonating on the skating rinks that appear naturally in the frost along a whitened field. more