Adele Releases “All Night Parking (with Erroll Garner) Interlude”
Erroll Garner’s unmistakable piano appears on Adele’s new album 30. The song “All Night Parking (with Erroll Garner) Interlude” begins with Garner’s solo piano from his “No More Shadows” and then, as NPR writes, “...transforms it into a sample around which Adele wraps a vocal as light as twilight air.”
Read what critics are saying about “All Night Parking (with Erroll Garner) Interlude”:
...“All Night Parking,” a time warp of old and new, which juxtaposes florid, speed-fingered, cascading samples from the jazz pianist Erroll Garner with a trap-like drum-machine beat, while Adele shows off jazzy syncopations as she sings about 21st-century lust: “Every time that you text/I want to get on the next flight home.”
Compact and subtly gorgeous, “All Night Parking” lets Adele supply her own call-and-response vocals as late jazz legend Erroll Garner’s piano serves as a backbone. Within an album of breakup and post-breakup songs, “All Night Parking” provides Adele an opportunity to let her hair down and sink into an exciting new prospect, even from afar — the trumpet here serves as a nod back from a long-distance beau.
...and the sinuous flow of the delightedly sensual "All Night Parking," which kicks off with a light-handed sample from the late Pittsburgh jazz great Erroll Garner and transforms it into a sample around which Adele wraps a vocal as light as twilight air.
On “All Night Parking,” Adele inserts piano melodies from the late American jazz musician Erroll Garner. Recorded in Electric Lady Studios, the song is also Adele’s first significant foray into R&B, conjuring the potent neo-soul for which Winehouse was famous. The track’s opening crackles like vinyl, an effect Winehouse used on Frank’s “(There Is) No Greater Love.”
The Erroll Garner-sampling “All Night Parking” is a sumptuous paean to the intoxication of a new relationship.
Who is Erroll Garner?
To learn more about the Pittsburgh-born jazz pianist, read the Erroll Garner biography page on our website and listen to the Erroll Garner Uncovered podcast.
About “No More Shadows”:
Originally composed and recorded in 1959, Erroll Garner first released “No More Shadows” on his 1961 studio album Closeup in Swing. The song was a crowd favorite and a staple of Erroll Garner’s live sets and appears on 2018’s Nightconcert album, recorded in 1964 at Amsterdam’s legendary Concertgebouw.