The Red Garland Quintet - Soul Junction 1957 - RVG 2007 - 320Kb

The Red Garland Quintet featuring John Coltrane and Donald Byrd:

Soul Junction 1957

- RVG Remasters 2007
- Originally released on Prestige 7181


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 1957 – as well as its companion pieces ALL MORNING LONG and HIGH PRESSURE from the same session - is Garland leading a group featuring Davis bandmate John Coltrane and soon-to-be-rising-trumpet-star 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. The chemistry is perfect.

In the end, it is Red Garland's flawless blues, ballads, block chording, and sense of time that puts this session over the top.


- CD
- 320Kbps


Tracklist:
1. Soul Junction
2. Woody' N You
3. Birk's Works
4. I've Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)
5. Hallelujah


Personnel:
Red Garland, piano
John Coltrane, tenor sax
Donald Byrd, trumpet
George Joyner, double bass
Art Taylor, drums


Recorded at the Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey on November 15, 1957


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