Red Garland
Piano Solo on
If I Were A Bell

About

Red Garland's piano solo is the last of three solos on this recording, following John Coltrane on tenor sax. Spanning three choruses of the 32-bar ABAC form in F at a driving 183 BPM with a swing feel, pianist Red Garland rounds out the solo section with three elegant choruses of block-chord piano. All soloists on this recording ended their solo by repeating the last 4 bars of the form as many times as they wanted. Red Garland did it 5 times for 20 total extra bars.

Red Garland was 32 to 33 years old at the time.