Soul Junction The Red Garland Quintet
Album info
Album-Release:
1960
HRA-Release:
04.08.2014
Album including Album cover Booklet (PDF)
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- 1 Soul Junction 15:27
- 2 Woodyn' You 06:49
- 3 Birks' Works 07:35
- 4 I've Got It Bad And That Ain T Good 06:17
- 5 Hallelujah 06:28
Info for Soul Junction
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).
'Pianist Red Garland's very relaxed, marathon blues solo on the 16-minute 'Soul Junction' is the most memorable aspect of this (album) reissue. With such soloists as tenor saxophonist John Coltrane and trumpeter Donald Byrd, plus steady support provided by bassist George Joyner and drummer Art Taylor, Garland gets to stretch out on the title cut and four jazz originals, including 'Birk's Works' and 'Hallelujah.' Coltrane is in excellent form, playing several stunning sheets of sound solos.' (AMG)
Red Garland, piano
John Coltrane, tenor saxophone
Donald Byrd, trumpet
George Joyner, bass
Art Taylor, drums
Recorded at the Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey on November 15, 1957
Digitally remastered
No biography found.
Booklet for Soul Junction