Breaking New Ground (Mal Waldron album)

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Breaking New Ground
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Studio album by Mal Waldron
Released 1983
Recorded June 28 & 29, 1983
Genre Jazz
Length46:51
Label Baybridge (Japan)
Producer Jeffrey Kaufman
Mal Waldron chronology
In Retrospect
(1982)		Breaking New Ground
(1983)		 Mal Waldron Plays Eric Satie
(1983)

Breaking New Ground is an album by American jazz pianist Mal Waldron recorded in 1983 and released by the Japanese Baybridge label. [1]

Mal Waldron American jazz pianist and composer

Malcolm Earl "Mal" Waldron was an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger. He started playing professionally in New York in 1950, after graduating from university. In the following dozen years or so Waldron led his own bands and played for those led by Charles Mingus, Jackie McLean, John Coltrane, and Eric Dolphy, among others. During Waldron's period as house pianist for Prestige Records in the late 1950s, he appeared on dozens of albums and composed for many of them, including writing his most famous song, "Soul Eyes", for Coltrane. Waldron was often an accompanist for vocalists, and was Billie Holiday's regular accompanist from April 1957 until her death in July 1959.

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Reception

The Allmusic review by Ken Dryden awarded the album 3½ stars stating "Mal Waldron's Breaking New Ground is an abrupt departure for the pianist. Normally focusing on his own compositions, these 1983 trio sessions with Reggie Workman and Ed Blackwell find him mining current pop songs... This CD may startle Waldron's fans a bit, but it proves that he was open to new ideas". [2]

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Track listing

All compositions by Mal Waldron except where noted.

  1. "Dans La Cuisine d'Alibi"
  2. "Suicide Is Painless" (Mike Altman, Johnny Mandel)
  3. "After the Love Has Gone" (David Foster, Jay Graydon, Bill Champlin)
  4. "Beat It" (Michael Jackson)
  5. "You Are the Sunshine of My Life" (Stevie Wonder)
  6. "Gymnopédie No. 2" (Erik Satie)
  7. "Everything Must Change" (Bernard Ighner)
  8. "Thy Freedom Come"

Personnel

Piano musical instrument

The piano is an acoustic, stringed musical instrument invented in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700, in which the strings are struck by hammers. It is played using a keyboard, which is a row of keys that the performer presses down or strikes with the fingers and thumbs of both hands to cause the hammers to strike the strings.

Reggie Workman American double-bassist

Reginald "Reggie" Workman is an American avant-garde jazz and hard bop double bassist, recognized for his work with both John Coltrane and Art Blakey.

Double bass Acoustic stringed instrument of the violin family

The double bass, or simply the bass, is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra.

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References

  1. ↑ Mal Waldron discography accessed March 2, 2011
  2. 1 2 Dryden, K. Allmusic Review accessed March 2, 2011
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