Tracks:
Soul Junction
Woodyn' You
Birks' Works
I've Got It Bad And That Ain T Good
Hallelujah

Performer Notes:

• Red Garland Quintet: Red Garland (piano); John Coltrane (tenor saxophone); Donald Byrd (trumpet); George Joyner (bass); Art Taylor (drums).
• Recorded at the Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey on November 15, 1957. Originally released on Prestige (7181). Includes liner notes by Nat Hentoff.
• Digitally remastered by Phil De Lancie (1990, Fantasy Studios, Berkeley, California).
• Red Garland Quintet: John Coltrane (tenor saxophone); Donald Byrd (trumpet); Red Garland (piano); George Joyner (bass guitar); Art Taylor (drum).
• While the late Red Garland is best-known and fondly remembered as the pianist for the Miles Davis Quintet in the mid-1950s, he also had a career of his own. Garland's style was a gregarious balance of the sophistication of bebop and the earthiness of the blues. SOUL JUNCTION, recorded in 1950, is Garland leading a group featuring Davis bandmate John Coltrane and soon-to-be-rising-trumpet-star (in the late '50s/early '60s) Donald Byrd. It's a thoroughly enjoyable hard bop jaunt through a Garland original and four familiar standards, with Coltrane laying down his near-torrential "sheets of sound" and Byrd playing Mr. Cool to 'Trane's soul and fire. Art Taylor keeps things swinging crisply and Garland, as usual, is masterful (but never in a show-off manner).

Professional Reviews: Q (Magazine) (p.133) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "The spotlight moment belongs to Garland's long, luxurious solo on the 16-minute title track."

Producer: Nick Phillips (Reissue), Chris Clough (Reissue), Bob Porter (Reissue), Stuart Kremsky (Reissue)

Format: CD (1 Disc); Stereo

Country: USA

Studio/Live: Studio

Guest Artist: John Coltrane; Donald Byrd; Art Taylor

Release Date: 1 August, 2007

Label: Universal Music Distribution

Dimensions: 12.7 x 14.7 x 1.1 centimeters (0.04 kg)