Red Trane

For Red Garland and Coltrane playing together (outside of the first great Miles Davis quintet, of course) I'm a fan of "Soul Junction," Prestige, which also includes Donald Byrd on trumpet, albeit it in a decidedly supporting role.

The recording was done exactly two months after Coltrane recorded "Blue Trane" and he shows some of the same stuff here, noticeably on "Birk's Works." But this is Red's date and he uses it to perambulate plenty, particularly on the title track and on "I've Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)," which makes it a better disk to check out Garland than his partners.