I don’t know if Martha Glaser and Errol Garner were lovers, but she was his manager and record producer and unlike any other story like that, they remained friends. Seems like all the interviews I read about them are partly taken up with people trying to figure out what other meaning their relationship had. He was a monster pianist and I’m so impressed he didn’t have giant hands. Makes a shrimp like me more secure that there’s another way besides giant 10th playing left hands of Stanley Cowell, Oscar Peterson and Art Tatum. He had his own phone book to sit on, it’s cute in all the Youtube videos. The university of Pittsburgh has the archives, they’re digitized. Awesome to read Martha’s correspondence with John Hammond because she and Erroll were the first major artists to sue a record company (Columbia) for cheating the artist and they won, then set up their own label but in many ways he was deprived of what he deserved because companies like Columbia had monopolies on distribution. There’s a lot of grunting pianists, Glen Gould, Keith Jarrett but Errol Garner is my fave because he smiles at the same time. In interviews he says he has no history, no teacher, that he was born able to do all this, maybe so. All these years later I just clued in to why Clint Eastwood’s film was called Play Misty For Me.