Red Garland
Piano Solo on
Salt Peanuts

About

Red Garland's piano solo is the first of four solos on this recording. Spanning one chorus of the 32-bar AABA form in F at a blazing 350 BPM with a swing feel, Garland opens with a single piano chorus before Davis enters with two trumpet choruses that navigate the extreme speed with his trademark clarity and space, a remarkable achievement at this tempo. "Salt Peanuts" is a contrafact built on the chord changes of "I Got Rhythm," requiring the soloist to navigate a familiar harmonic framework with a different melodic identity.

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