High Pressure

Artist: Red Garland Quintet
Label: Prestige
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 025218034920
EAN: 0025218034920
ASIN: B000000YJF

Release Date: 1961-01-01

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Tracks:

Soft Winds
Solitude
Undecided
What Is There To Say
Two Bass Hit

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Customer Reviews:

Classic 50s era jazz.......2005-01-21

This is a really great quartet date, Trane's prowess is far from at it's peak and his solos don't quite stand out yet. But you really should have this record for the lyrical stylings of Red Gardner who is shamefully overlooked as a pianist.

Gardner's styling may be a bit conventional without as much flair as an Oscar Peterson or lyrical beauty as Bill Evans, but he gets buy.

There's some superb bass work here by Paul Chambers (?) too.

The 3rd record from an historic session.......2003-09-18

In November and December of 1957, Red Garland got to lead his first, and only session, as a leader of a band as opposed to a trio (more on the trio in a second). Both "Soul Junction", and "All Mornin'Long" were masterful recordings which were released first from these same session dates with Coltrane, Donald Byrd, and the Garland trio. "High Pressure" was the last to come out, but you'd never know that it was 3rd choice material. I notice that the tracks are shuffled differently than on the copy that I have, where "Soft Winds" opens up (an old Goodman tune) and Red begins just as good as on all the other LPs. Coltrane and Byrd compliment each other so well, I think, because their styles differ - Byrd blows 'hot', but straight ahead, never complicated and always accessable. Art Taylor is the drummer's drummer, and perfect for this date. All 3 of the abovementioned CDs are top, top shelf. As to the trio, Red put out a lot of trio stuff: you can not say it is all mediocre, no way. "Red In Bluesville", "Can't See For Lookin'"...these are a few that are simply great. The knock on a few of the trio dates is that they are short in length, or they sound the same. Sorry, the good ones I could listen to every day, and Red was of the best trio players out there, groove and dynamic-wise. Check that Trio out, too.

One of the Best Garlands.......2000-07-13

Red Garland is probably best known as the piano player in Miles Davis' classic mid-50s quintet. On the heels of that group's success, Garland enjoyed a very productive relationship with Prestige Records. Unfortunately, while he put out seemingly dozens of albums, most of them are mediocre trio recordings. The exceptions come with "Soul Junction" and this album, "High Pressure." In a quintet setting, Garland is truly at home. Donald Byrd and his bandmate from his days with Miles, the one and only John Coltrane, join Red on "High Pressure." They play decisively on the album's five standards, which counldn't always be said for both Red and 'Trane at this point in their careers. This album is an all around excellent purchase.

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