William "Red" Garland leads this classic quintet tonight on The Jazz Show's Jazz Feature. In the Fall of 1957 Red had some time off as Miles Davis' regular pianist because Miles was on a tour of Europe and involved in making the soundtrack from the French noir film "Elevator to the Scaffold". Red secured some gigs in and around New York with this band which included tenor giant John Coltrane, trumpeter Donald Byrd, drum ace Arthur Taylor and a newcomer on bass from Memphis named George Joyner who soon later became Jamil Nasser. The band gelled instantly with minimal arrangements and fuss and sounded like a long standing working band. Red was contacted by Prestige Records and the band did two marathon recording sessions. One in November and the other in December of 1957. The results from these sessions were issued on a variety of Lps and later Cds as was Prestige's policy. The three extended tunes come from an album called "All Mornin' Long". It came from the first session on Nov.15,1957. The playing is on an extremely high level and demonstrates you can make high quality music with the minimum of complex arrangements and such from these five master players. "All Mornin' Long" is tonight's Jazz feature....sit back and enjoy!

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