Satin Doll (Red Garland album)

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Satin Doll
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Studio album by Red Garland
Released 1971
Recorded August 12 and October 2, 1959
Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey and The Prelude Club, New York City
Genre Jazz
Length39:40
Label Prestige PR 7859
Producer Orrin Keepnews
Red Garland chronology
Coleman Hawkins with the Red Garland Trio
(1959) Coleman Hawkins with the Red Garland Trio1959		Satin Doll
(1959)		 Red Garland at the Prelude
(1959) Red Garland at the Prelude1959

Satin Doll is an album by American pianist, composer and bandleader Red Garland which was recorded in 1959 but not released on the Prestige label until 1971. [1]

Red Garland American musician (1923-1984)

William McKinley "Red" Garland, Jr. was an American modern jazz pianist. Known for his work as a bandleader and during the 1950s with Miles Davis, Garland helped popularize the block chord style of piano playing.

Prestige Records American jazz record label

Prestige Records is a jazz record company and label founded in 1949 by Bob Weinstock in New York City. The company recorded hundreds of albums by many of the leading jazz musicians of the day, sometimes issuing them under subsidiaries. In 1971, the company was sold to Fantasy, which was later absorbed by Concord.

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The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow stated, "This out-of-print LP released for the first time five unknown selections featuring pianist Red Garland in a trio... making this an album of interest to Red Garland completists". [2]

Scott Yanow is an American jazz reviewer, historian, and author.

Track listing

All compositions by Red Garland except as indicated

  1. "Satin Doll" (Duke Ellington, Johnny Mercer, Billy Strayhorn) - 9:45
  2. "The Man I Love" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) - 10:43
  3. "A Little Bit of Basie" - 5:36
  4. "It's a Blue World" (George Forrest, Robert Wright) - 7:08
  5. "M-Squad Theme" (Count Basie) - 6:28

on October 2, 1959 (tracks 4 & 5)

Personnel

Piano musical instrument

The piano is an acoustic, stringed musical instrument invented in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700, in which the strings are struck by hammers. It is played using a keyboard, which is a row of keys that the performer presses down or strikes with the fingers and thumbs of both hands to cause the hammers to strike the strings.

Doug Watkins American bassist

Douglas Watkins was an American jazz double bassist from Detroit. He was best known for being an accompanist to various hard bop artists in the Detroit area, including Donald Byrd and Jackie McLean.

Double bass Acoustic stringed instrument of the violin family

The double bass, or simply the bass, is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra.

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References

  1. ↑ Red Garland discography accessed December 4, 2012
  2. 1 2 Yanow, S. Allmusic Review accessed December 4, 2012
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