Red Alone

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Red Alone
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Released1960
RecordedApril 2, 1960
Studio Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ
Genre Jazz
Length43:01
Label Moodsville
MVLP 3
Producer Esmond Edwards
Red Garland chronology
The Red Garland Trio + Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis
(1959)
Red Alone
(1960)
Alone with the Blues
(1960)
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2004 CD reissue
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Red Alone is a solo piano album by jazz musician Red Garland, recorded in 1960 and released the same year on Prestige Records, originally as part of the Moodsville series. [2]

Contents

Track listing

  1. "When Your Lover Has Gone" (Einar Aaron Swan) - 6:45
  2. "These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You)" (Jack Strachey, Holt Marvell, Harry Link) - 5:08
  3. "My Last Affair" (Haven Johnson) - 3:39
  4. "You Are Too Beautiful" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) - 4:45
  5. "I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)" (Duke Ellington, Paul Francis Webster) - 7:09
  6. "The Nearness of You" (Hoagy Carmichael, Ned Washington) - 5:04
  7. "Nancy (With the Laughing Face)" (Jimmy Van Heusen, Phil Silvers) - 5:25
  8. "When I Fall in Love" (Victor Young, Edward Heyman) - 5:06

Personnel

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