Pianist Red Garland's first leadership recording came during Miles Davis's May 1956 studio session for an album that would be called Workin'. Under pressure to record enough material for two albums to meet half his remaining obligation to Prestige Records, Davis let Garland record one of the tracks in the trio format—Ahmad Jamal's Ahmad's Blues.
The resu…
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