{"id":41582,"date":"2009-06-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/the-1956-trio\/"},"modified":"2009-06-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-30T00:00:00","slug":"the-1956-trio","status":"publish","type":"review","link":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/the-1956-trio\/","title":{"rendered":"The 1956 Trio"},"content":{"rendered":"

Great albums are not just listened to; they are experienced.\u00a0\u00a0 I remember the first album I obsessed over as a teenager (Miles Davis\u2019s Kind Of Blue<\/i>), the album I listened to with that special someone (The Very Best Of Marvin Gaye), <\/i>and the album that symbolizes that one crazy night with my buddies (The Clash\u2019s London Calling).\u00a0 <\/i>It had been awhile since I experienced an album in this manner.\u00a0 That is, until I heard pianist Red Garland\u2019s The 1956 Trio.<\/o:p><\/i><\/p>\n

No doubt, The 1956 Trio <\/i>is musically impressive.\u00a0 From the sensual \u201cMakin\u2019 Whoopee\u201d <\/i>to the toe-tapping \u201cWhat Is This Thing Called Love?,\u201d <\/i>Garland\u2019s playing is precisely melodic, even when quick and disjointed.\u00a0 His chord choices (\u201cvoicings\u201d in jazz lingo) are deeply inventive.\u00a0 Art Taylor\u2019s drumming and Paul Chamber\u2019s bass playing create the perfect backdrop for Garland to showcase his musical abilities.\u00a0 (Please note that Paul Chamber\u2019s solos on The 1956 Trio <\/i>are just as brilliant as Garland\u2019s.)<\/o:p><\/p>\n

Historically, these are important recordings.\u00a0 The union of Chambers and Garland laid the foundation for the Miles Davis Quintet\u2019s famous Prestige recordings of the same year.\u00a0 (Instead of choosing Art Taylor for drums, Davis used Philly Joe Jones, who is featured on \u201cAhmad\u2019s Blues\u201d).\u00a0 <\/i>Certainly, the Chambers\/Garland sound was essential to the Miles Davis Quintet\u2019s style.\u00a0 Plus, Garland\u2019s version of \u201cIf I Were A Bell,\u201d recorded in December of 1956, sounds eerily similar to Davis\u2019 previously recorded version (Relaxin\u2019 With Miles Davis, <\/i>featuring Chambers and Garland).<\/o:p><\/p>\n

While musicality and historical importance are pertinent, this album deserves accolades because of the experience it invokes in its listeners.\u00a0 Right away, I knew this album was something special: at times ferocious, other times sweet, The 1956 Trio<\/i> balances beauty and ugliness into a perfect musical mix.\u00a0 I immediately was inspired to sit in my back yard while blasting my stereo, drinking whiskey, and smoking cigars.\u00a0 From hence forth, I will always associate The 1956 Trio<\/i> with the whiskey\/cigar experience, and vice versa.\u00a0 <\/o:p><\/p>\n

Two songs engaged me in particular.\u00a0 The brooding \u201cBlue Red\u201d takes the listener back to jazz\u2019s brothel and speakeasy days of Jelly Roll Morton and Sidney Bechet.\u00a0 This is Garland\u2019s way of saying \u201cI know where I come from,\u201d and the cathartic value of this song is difficult to match.\u00a0 By contrast, Garland\u2019s version of Charlie Parker\u2019s \u201cConstellation\u201d showcases jazz\u2019s progressive side.\u00a0 It is joyfully experimental, fast, and edgy.\u00a0 It discards convention, with Garland\u2019s lightning quick piano solo fading into Chamber\u2019s sharp, tense bass solo, surprisingly played with a bow.\u00a0 Picture this: I sat under a beautiful summer night sky, enjoying whiskey and cigars, soaking in the full range of emotions this album has to offer: joy, rebellion, melancholy, sensuality\u2026the list is endless.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

In conclusion, I want to share this album with the world.\u00a0 I want to tell all my friends and family to listen to it.\u00a0 I want to inform everyone I meet about my experience.\u00a0 So when the night implores you, grab your favorite vice and enjoy an earful of Red Garland\u2019s The 1956 Trio.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":29959,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[8422],"rating":[5646],"class_list":["post-41582","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-red-garland","rating-rating-a"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/41582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/41582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=41582"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=41582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}