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 ...

Red Garland’s Soul Junction returns in a superb OJC reissue—clean, balanced sound, authoritative piano, and essential listening for anyone who loves the piano.

It's often been written about many (sometimes less deserving) artists, but in his case it's genuinely true: Pianist Red Garland played on too many classic jazz albums—especially in bop quintets led by ...

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Red Garland’s push-at-the-beat comping, lush voicing and sparkling linear invention were as distinctive a feature of Miles Davis’s first classic quintet as John Coltrane’s sax and the leader’s trumpet ...

Red Garland’s soulful trills, blues inflections and sweetened block chords were a defining feature of Miles Davis’ first great 1950s quintet, but are now somewhat overlooked in jazz piano lineage.