Sunday, November 8, 2009

Red GARLAND Quintet - Soul Junction 1957


Red GARLAND Quintet - Soul Junction 1957

Jazz

While the late Red Garland is best-known and fondly remembered as the pianist for the Miles Davis Quintet in the mid-1950s, he also had a career of his own. Garland's style was a gregarious balance of the sophistication of bebop and the earthiness of the blues. SOUL JUNCTION, recorded in 1950, is Garland leading a group featuring Davis bandmate John Coltrane and soon-to-be-rising-trumpet-star (in the late '50s/early '60s) Donald Byrd. It's a thoroughly enjoyable hard bop jaunt through a Garland original and four familiar standards, with Coltrane laying down his near-torrential "sheets of sound" and Byrd playing Mr. Cool to 'Trane's soul and fire. Art Taylor keeps things swinging crisply and Garland, as usual, is masterful (but never in a show-off manner).
From CD Universe.
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Red Garland- (Piano)
John Coltrane- (Tenor Saxophone)
Donald Byrd- (Trumpet)
Art Taylor- (Double Bass)
George Joyner- (Drums)
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01. Soul Junction (Red Garland) 15:30
02. Woody' N You (Dizzy Gillespie) 6:52
03. Birk's Works (Dizzy Gillespie) 7:35
04. I've Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good) (Duke Ellington/Paul Francis Webster) 6:16
05. Hallelujah (Clifford Grey/Leo Robin/Vincent Youmans) 6:29
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