Hard Talk (album)

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Hard Talk
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Live album by
Mal Waldron
Released1974
RecordedMay 4, 1974
Genre Jazz
Length37:48
Label Enja
Producer Horst Weber
Mal Waldron chronology
Up Popped the Devil
(1973)		Hard Talk
(1974)		 Like Old Time
(1976)
Steve Lacy chronology
Scraps
(1974)		Hard Talk
(1974)		 Flakes
(1974)

Hard Talk is a live album by American jazz pianist Mal Waldron recorded in 1974 and released by the Enja 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.

Enja Records record label

Enja Records is a German jazz record company and label based in Munich which was founded by jazz enthusiasts Matthias Winckelmann and Horst Weber in 1971.

Contents

Reception

The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 4½ stars stating "This is a strong live set that successfully combines together some distinctive musical personalities". [2]

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

Professional ratings
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Track listing

All compositions by Mal Waldron
  1. "Snake Out" — 12:28
  2. "Hard Talk" — 19:17
  3. "Russian Melody" — 6:03
  4. "Hurray for Herbie" — 13:29 Bonus track on CD reissue
  • Recorded at the East-West Jazz Festival in the Meistersingerhalle in Nürnberg, West Germany on May 4, 1974.
Meistersingerhalle culture and congress centre in Nuremberg, Germany

Meistersingerhalle is the municipal culture and congress centre of Nürnberg, Bavaria, Germany. It is named after the tradition of the Meistersinger in the town, which Wagner reflected in his opera Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. Completed in 1963, it is a listed historic monument since 2007.

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.

Manfred Schoof German musician

Manfred Schoof is a German jazz trumpeter.

Cornet musical instrument

The cornet is a brass instrument similar to the trumpet but distinguished from it by its conical bore, more compact shape, and mellower tone quality. The most common cornet is a transposing instrument in B♭, though there is also a soprano cornet in E♭ and a cornet in C. All are unrelated to the Renaissance and early Baroque cornett.

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References

  1. ↑ Mal Waldron discography accessed February 28, 2011
  2. 1 2 Yanow, S. Allmusic Review accessed February 28, 2011
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