First Encounter

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First Encounter
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Studio album by Mal Waldron and Gary Peacock
Released 1971
Recorded March 8, 1971
Tokyo, Japan
Genre Jazz
Length46:19
Label RCA Victor
Mal Waldron chronology
Mal: Live 4 to 1
(1971)		First Encounter
(1971)		 Number Nineteen
(1971)

First Encounter is an album by American jazz pianist Mal Waldron and bassist Gary Peacock recorded in 1971 and released on the Japanese RCA Victor 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.

Gary Peacock American double-bassist

Gary Peacock is an American jazz double-bassist.

Contents

Reception

The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 3 stars stating "The long improvisations on the four originals (three by Waldron and one from Peacock) are melancholy, usually introverted and subtle. The interplay between Waldron and Peacock on the inside/outside music is the main asset to this obscure but generally rewarding session". [2]

Scott Yanow is an American jazz reviewer, historian, and author.

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Track listing

All compositions by Mal Waldron except where noted.

  1. "She Walks In Beauty" — 12:18
  2. "The Heart Of The Matter" — 11:56
  3. "What's That" (Gary Peacock) — 9:05
  4. "Walking Way" — 13:00

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.

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.

Hiroshi Murakami is a Japanese jazz drummer.

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References

  1. ↑ Mal Waldron discography accessed February 24, 2011
  2. 1 2 Yanow, S. Allmusic Review accessed February 24, 2011
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