Except for Count Basie, few jazz pianists in the post-war years could swing the blues like Red Garland. Garland, of course, gave standards a handsome spin with dramatic lyricism, plenty of space and clusters of block chords. But the blues were in Garland's blood system, and his trio album Halleloo-Y'-All from 1960 remains for me one of the finest exampl…
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