Red Garland and Ray Bryant display their ability and good taste exploring a selection of ballads, blues, standards and originals. Despite their different styles, both pianists deliver, in their respective ways, a moving experience.
The incredibly tasteful Garlands discerning touch, phrasing and innately melodic sense make his playing a constant joy and show why Miles Davis hired him for his first great quintet.
Where the Ray Bryant session is concerned, the blues take over from the first dark, rolling figure that opens the date. The result is a multi-faceted, happy, dolorous, impish, whimsical blues outing played by an interpreter steeped in the genre, a set that gives full rein to Bryant to express his soul.
Tracklist
Total time: 132:37 min.
CD 1
01. In the Evening (When the Sun Goes Down) (Carr) 5:24
02. These Foolish Things (Remember Me of You) (Link-Strachey-Marvell) 5:06
03. Chains of Love (Wells-Ertegun) 5:59
04. The Nearness of You (Carmichael-Washington) 5:02
05. Wee Baby Blues (Johnson-Turner) 6:56
06. When Your Lover Has Gone (Swan) 6:42
07. Blues in the Closet (Pettiford) 4:20
08. You Are Too Beautiful (Rodgers-Hart) 4:42
09. Tranes Blues (Coltrane) 5:49
10. When I Fall In Love (Young-Heyman) 5:06
11. Cloud (williams) 4:49
12. Tired (Roberts-Fisher) 6:35
CD 2
01. I Got It Bad (And That Aint Good) (Ellington-Webster) 7:06
02. My Last Affair (Johnson) 3:36
03. Sent for You Yesterday (Here You Come Today) (Basie-Durham-Rushing) 5:06
04. Nancy (With the Laughing Face) (Silvers-Van Heusen) 5:22
05. Me and the Blues (Blues No.1) (Bryant) 5:01
06. Rockin Chair (Carmichael) 5:17
07. Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?) (Davis-Ramirez-Sherman) 3:53
08. Joy (Blues No.2) (Bryant) 4:00
09. Blues No.3 (Bryant) 7:16
10. Stocking Feet (Blues No.4) (Bryant) 4:49
11. My Blues (Blues No.5) (Bryant) 7:43
12. Greensleeves (Traditional) 2:25 (*) Bonus Track
13. Ill Wind (Koehler-Arlen) 3:12 (*) Bonus Track
Album details
Sources CD 1:
Tracks #2,4,6,8 & 10 from the album "Red Garland: Red Alone" (Moodsville MVLP3)
Tracks #1,3,5,7,9,11 & 12 from the album "Red Garland: Alone With The Blues" (Moodsville MVLP10)
Sources CD 2:
Tracks #1,2 & 4 from the album "Red Garland: Red Alone" (Moodsville MVLP3)
Track #3 from the album "Red Garland: Alone With The Blues" (Moodsville MVLP10)
Tracks #5-11 from the album "Ray Bryant: Alone With The Blues" (New Jazz NJ-8213)
Track #12 from the album "Little Susie" (Columbia CS-8244)
Track #13 from the album "Con Alma" (Columbia CS-8433)
Personnel on CD 1:
Red Garland, piano solo.
Recorded at Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, on April 2, 1960
Personnel on CD 2:
Red Garland, piano solo (#1-4)
Recorded at Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, on April 2, 1960
Ray Bryant, piano solo (#5-13)
Same location as #1-4, recorded on December 19, 1958
Bonus tracks:
Ray Bryant, piano solo
Recorded in New York City, January 19 (#12), 1960; and January 26 (#13), 1961
Original recordings produced by Esmond Edwards
This compilation produced by Jordi Pujol
Stereo · 24-Bit Digitally Remastered
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Additional notes:
At the end of the 2nd CD we have included 'Greensleeves' and 'Ill Wind,' two piano solo tunes recorded by Ray Bryant for the LPs Little Susie & Con Alma on January 19, 1960 and December 5, 1960 respectively. The remaining trio tunes are included on the CD The Ray Bryant Trio Con Alma & Little Susie (FSRCD 657).
