Talk:Erroll Garner

Date of death

 * Many sources specify january 2, as date of death. Please verify. Akela  23:47, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

music lessons
That Erroll Garner never had piano lessons is in dispute. I have read that he took formal lesson for about 6mos to a year.76.172.205.172 (talk) 17:47, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

Let's Get some NPOV in this article...
Really... 65.248.164.214 (talk) 21:13, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

Section "Playing style"
The "Playing Style" section references an AllMusic bio, but the last 3 paragraphs read like original research, or text copied directly from another site. Please rewrite with reliable sources and provide inline citations. Thanks! -- David Spalding ( ☎   ✉   ✍  ) 20:25, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

Granted this section is not supported by citations, and I suppose it could be called "original research", although it is more observation than research and does not reflect a personal point of view. As a musician myself, I was trying to explain some technical aspects of Garner's sound that make it unique, that a non-musician might not be aware of or be able to articulate. There is nothing really controversial about it and I doubt that I am the first to describe these mechanical aspects of Garner's playing. If someone translated a phrase from Chinese to English without citations, would that constitute original research? Hopefully, someone else will come along and drop some footnotes supporting the text, and the article will grow organically, as sometimes happens in Wikipedia. 67.85.165.191 (talk) 13:11, 3 July 2011 (UTC)Kolef8867.85.165.191 (talk) 13:11, 3 July 2011 (UTC)

Main photo
Was the main photo really taken in 1947? If so, that would imply that Garner is ~24 in the photo, which seems quite surprising. Is there a source to back up that date? SiliconRed (talk) 17:20, 2 February 2018 (UTC)

Miss Bowman
Section Piano career begins
 * Garner began playing piano at the age of three. His elder siblings were taught piano by Miss Bowman. From an early age, Erroll would sit down and play anything she had demonstrated, just like Miss Bowman, his eldest sister Martha said.

Piano teacher "Miss Bowman" must have had a first name. Its absence here is a bit confusing, but I suppose that that's what the family called her, and that her first name isn't found anywhere in the family records.

Thnidu (talk) 16:39, 26 September 2021 (UTC)