| Interplay for 2 Trumpets and 2 Tenors | |
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| Studio album by | |
| Released | November 1957 [1] [2] |
| Recorded | March 22, 1957 |
| Studio | Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, NJ |
| Genre | Jazz |
| Length | 46:58 |
| Label | Prestige PRLP 7112 |
| Producer | Bob Weinstock |
Interplay for 2 Trumpets and 2 Tenors is a jazz album released in November 1957 by Prestige Records. [1] [2] It is credited to Idrees Sulieman, Webster Young, John Coltrane and Bobby Jaspar, with Mal Waldron, Kenny Burrell, Paul Chambers and Art Taylor.
Interplay for 2 Trumpets and 2 Tenors was released in November 1957 on Prestige Records as 7112. The record features the first recording of pianist Mal Waldron's composition, "Soul Eyes", which went on to become a jazz standard. [3] Some CD reissues also include the bonus track "C.T.A." (Jimmy Heath), originally issued on Taylor's Wailers , recorded the same day, with just Coltrane, Chambers, Taylor and pianist Red Garland. [4] The album would also be issued in 1964 as Jazz Interplay, a 2-LP compilation credited to Coltrane alone, which features tracks from other albums.
| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |    [4] |
Lindsay Planer of AllMusic reviewed the album stating: "This interesting blend of instrumentalists lives up to its potential". [4]
All compositions by Mal Waldron
Malcolm Earl "Mal" Waldron was an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger. He started playing professionally in New York in 1950, after graduating from college. 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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"Soul Eyes" is a composition, with lyrics, written by Mal Waldron. It is a 32-bar ballad that takes the song form ABAC, and is written in 4/4 time. It was first recorded on March 22, 1957, for the album Interplay for 2 Trumpets and 2 Tenors. One of the tenor saxophonists on that recording was John Coltrane, who brought the song back to attention by recording it in 1962 for his album Coltrane, when he had become more famous. This was only the second ever recording of the song, which has since become "part of the basic repertory of jazz performers" – a jazz standard. Waldron wrote the piece with Coltrane in mind: "I liked Coltrane's sound and I thought the melody would fit it".
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