Artist: Hank Garland
Genre(s):
Instrumental
Discography:
Unforgettable Guitar
Year: 1962
Tracks: 9
Velvet Guitar
Year: 1961
Tracks: 7
Move, The Guitar Artistry Of Hank Garland (CD2)
Year: 1960
Tracks: 19
Move, The Guitar Artistry Of Hank Garland (CD1)
Year: 1960
Tracks: 12
Nothing upsets preconceived minds like soul world Health Organization successfully crosses o'er to some other genre later he has been thoroughly pigeonholed by experts in a previous one. Such was Hank Garland, Nashville's busiest rural area guitar selector world Health Organization, with small word of advice, made a brilliant malarkey album in mid-career and seemed headed for jazz stardom until an motorcar accident left him ineffectual to perform. As a jazz performing artist, Garland had a rich melodic and harmonic resource and a levelheaded that had on the face of it honed to the creed of tone and attack according to Charlie Christian -- with some Les Paul mixed in and more than a disturb of Bud Powell's influence as substantially. But fifty-fifty on his country records (tick out Red Foley's lofty "Midnight" and "Black Maria of Stone"), Garland's urbane jazz and blues sensibilities can be felt.
Battle of Cowpens is a rural suburbia of Spartanburg, SC, and patch growing up on that point, Garland absorbed country music from Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith and Mother Maybelle Carter on the radio, eventually shift from banjo to guitar. He coupled the Grand Ole Opry at 15 in 1945, sign-language with Decca in 1949 as a solo creative person, and appeared on uncounted Nashville transcription roger Huntington Sessions piece jamming privately in local clubs. In July 1960, Garland came forward as a jazz player, organizing a jazz band that was scheduled to play the Newport Jazz Festival but found itself on the sidelines later on riots shut the festival.
The undermentioned year, Garland's jazz debut on book, Jazz Winds From a New Direction, stunned both jazz and nation circles, and a follow-up record album, The Unforgettable Guitar of Hank Garland, was issued. But in September 1961, a nigh fateful machine accident robbed Garland of a good handle of his coordination and retentiveness.He finally returned to playing, but never regained the celebrity of his early 60s flower. Hank Garland passed away on December 27, 2004 at the long time of 74.
