When There Are Grey Skies

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When There Are Grey Skies
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Studio album by
ReleasedMarch 1963 [1]
RecordedOctober 9, 1962
Studio Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ
Genre Jazz
Length39:31
Label Prestige
PRLP 7258
Producer Ozzie Cadena
Red Garland chronology
Red's Good Groove
(1962)
When There Are Grey Skies
(1963)
The Quota
(1971)

When There Are Grey Skies is an album by the jazz pianist Red Garland, recorded in 1962 and released the following year on the Prestige label. [2]

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
DownBeat Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [3]
Allmusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [4]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [5]

Jazz critic Harvey Pekar, writing for DownBeat magazine, had this to say about Garland: "Garland is one of the most important figures in recent jazz piano history. His method of block-chording has influenced many other pianists. Also important is the way he establishes a groove with his left hand..." [3] Scott Yanow noted the album's "unlikely material." [4]

Track listing

  1. "Sonny Boy" (Brown, DeSylva, Henderson, Jolson) - 5:16
  2. "My Honey's Lovin' Arms" (Meyer, Ruby) - 3:40
  3. "St. James Infirmary" (Primrose) - 6:41
  4. "I Ain't Got Nobody" (Graham, Peyton, Williams) - 3:55
  5. "Baby Won't You Please Come Home" (Warfield, Williams) - 4:08
  6. "Nobody Knows the Trouble I See" (Traditional) - 12:00
  7. "My Blue Heaven" (Donaldson, Whiting) - 3:51 Bonus track on CD reissue

Personnel

References

  1. Billboard Mar 30, 1963
  2. At JazzDisco
  3. 1 2 DownBeat: June 6, 1963 Vol. 30, No. 13
  4. 1 2 Allmusic Review
  5. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 527. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.