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Jazz Musician of the Day: Red Garland
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Michael Ricci
All About Jazz is celebrating Red Garland's birthday today!
Largely self-taught, Red Garland established a reputation as a solid post-bop mainstream player in the 50s, playing with many of the most famous jazz musicians of the time. He achieved international fame in the late 50s as part of the Miles Davis quintet. He went on to lead his own groups, but then retired in 1968, a victim the declining demand for jazz. He reemerged in 1976 and performed regularly until ...
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Backgrounder: Red Garland's A Garland of Red
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
The centenary of Red Garland's birth is on Saturday. The pianist was born on March 13, 1923 and died on April 23, 1984. To celebrate Garland, I selected his tasty 1956 debut trio album A Garland of Red (Prestige) as a Backgrounder—the full album without ad interruption. The album features Garland, Paul Chambers on bass and Art Taylor on drums. I saw Garland just once, at the Village Vanguard, in early 1978 and remained for all three sets. At the ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Red Garland
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Michael Ricci
All About Jazz is celebrating Red Garland's birthday today!
Largely self-taught, Red Garland established a reputation as a solid post-bop mainstream player in the 50s, playing with many of the most famous jazz musicians of the time. He achieved international fame in the late 50s as part of the Miles Davis quintet. He went on to lead his own groups, but then retired in 1968, a victim the declining demand for jazz. He reemerged in 1976 and performed regularly until ...
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Red Garland: Rojo
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Red Garland's Rojo doesn't exist as a download. It also hasn't been released for streaming at Spotify, though it is available at Deezer, the free, French streaming platform. Recorded in 1958 and released in 1961, the album made it onto CD 30 years ago but was never remastered and fell through the cracks for some reason as the digital era advanced. Which is a shame, since it's one of my favorite recordings by the pianist, especially on You Better Go ...
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YouTubers Dig Red Garland 2
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Back in 2018, I posted on a bunch of young musicians who love pianist Red Garland and recorded themselves on YouTube playing his solos. I recently found that this wasn't a one-time deal, that others were doing this, too. Rummaging around YouTube yesterday, I found another group of Garland enthusiasts who recorded themselves this year playing his solos. Hats off to the Class of '21: Here's A Foggy Day... Here's Blues by Five... Here's Stompin' at the Savoy... Here's Almost ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Red Garland
Source:
Michael Ricci
All About Jazz is celebrating Red Garland's birthday today!
Largely self-taught, Red Garland established a reputation as a solid post-bop mainstream player in the 50s, playing with many of the most famous jazz musicians of the time. He achieved international fame in the late 50s as part of the Miles Davis quintet. He went on to lead his own groups, but then retired in 1968, a victim the declining demand for jazz. He reemerged in 1976 and performed regularly until ...
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Red Garland with Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
One of the greatest pairings of piano and tenor saxophone was pianist Red Garland and saxophonist Eddie “Lockjaw" Davis. Both artists were steeped in the blues and knew how to feed a blues and coax it up on its hind legs. And yet, they only recorded one album together, and only four tracks for that album, one of which didn't even make the final cut. It was used later as filler on a Davis compilation album that's now out of ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Red Garland
Source:
Michael Ricci
All About Jazz is celebrating Red Garland's birthday today!
Largely self-taught, Red Garland established a reputation as a solid post-bop mainstream player in the 50s, playing with many of the most famous jazz musicians of the time. He achieved international fame in the late 50s as part of the Miles Davis quintet. He went on to lead his own groups, but then retired in 1968, a victim the declining demand for jazz. He reemerged in 1976 and performed regularly until ...
read more
Jazz Musician of the Day: Red Garland
Source:
Michael Ricci
All About Jazz is celebrating Red Garland's birthday today!
Largely self-taught, Red Garland established a reputation as a solid post-bop mainstream player in the 50s, playing with many of the most famous jazz musicians of the time. He achieved international fame in the late 50s as part of the Miles Davis quintet. He went on to lead his own groups, but then retired in 1968, a victim the declining demand for jazz. He reemerged in 1976 and performed regularly until ...
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YouTubers Dig Red Garland
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Whenever I'm searching around YouTube, I'm always amazed when I come across pianists around the world playing convincingly in the style of a jazz giant. Or convincingly enough that they sound like they're having a ball. Yesterday, I found a bunch of Red Garland wannabes. I play some piano, but if I were to take lessons again, I'd aspire to play like Red. Who wouldn't? Here's Hey Now... Here's A Foggy Day... Here's If I Were a Bell... Here's Billy ...
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Ed Garland
Born: January 9, 1885
