Our delight (Red Garland) (LP 705 - 707)

Red Garland Quintet  All Mornin' Long (CD, Avid Jazz, 1957) ***

Red Garland Trio  Groovy (CD, Avid Jazz, 1957) *****

Red Garland Trio  All Kinds Of Weather (CD, Avid Jazz, 1958) ***

Genre: Piano jazz 

Places I remember: Ray's Jazz Bar in Foyles (Covent Garden)

Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: C Jam Blues

Gear costume: What Can I Say (After I Say I'm Sorry?) 

Active compensatory factors: All Mornin' Long features John Coltrane and Donald Byrd on Trumpet. That trumpet can get a little strident at times and so, this isn't as easy on the ear as the trio albums.

Groovy is both well named, and the pick of this set - his third album as leader and it hits a peak in the effortless stakes. Rubbish cover though.

All Kinds Of Weather is okay but the song selection is pretty eclectic, and again, Red is poorly served by the art department.

Where do they all belong? It's been a while (too long), but it's back to the vinyl next!!