Here's a quick comparison of the styles of Red Garland vs. Wynton Kelly:
Red Garland
| Wynton Kelly
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more legato touch
| more staccato touch ("pop")
|
block chords with root-fifth-octave in right hand common
| block chords not as common and many times they just have an octave in the right hand
|
uses more blues devices sometimes repeated over several choruses (see "Soul Junction" for example)
| favors b5 more frequently
|
long phrases a la Bud Powell
| uses triad arpeggios frequently sometimes with b5; sometimes with tremolo "fanfare"
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eighth notes are a tiny bit straighter than Kelly's
| eighth notes have a triplet feel (try playing transcriptions with boogie woogie triplet left hand to get rhythmic feel)
|
Left hand chords are frequently played on the upbeat of 2 and 4 or with a "Charleston" rhythm
| Left hand chords frequently consist only of 3rds and 7ths
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