Mal: Live 4 to 1

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Mal: live 4 to 1
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Live album by Mal Waldron
Released 1971
Recorded November 19, 1970
Genre Jazz
Label Philips (Japan)
West 54 Records (US)
Mal Waldron chronology
The Call
(1971) The Call1971
Mal: Live 4 to 1
(1971)
First Encounter
(1971) First Encounter1971

Mal: Live 4 to 1 is a live album by American jazz pianist Mal Waldron featuring a performance recorded in Tokyo, Japan in 1971 and released on the Japanese Philips label. [1] West 54 Records reissued the album on LP in 1980 as Left Alone - Mal Waldron Live.

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.

Philips Records Dutch record label; imprint of Philips Phonografische Industrie

Philips Records is a record label that was founded by the Dutch electronics company Philips. In 1946, Philips acquired the company which pressed records for British Decca's Dutch outlet in Amsterdam.

West 54 Records was a jazz record label active during the late 1970s.

Contents

Track listing

All compositions by Mal Waldron except as indicated
  1. "Little Abbi"
  2. "Blood And Guts"
  3. "Willow Weep for Me" (Ann Ronell)
  4. "You Don't Know What Love Is" (Don Raye, Gene de Paul)
  5. "Don't Explain" (Billie Holiday, Arthur Herzog Jr.)
  6. "Left Alone" (Billie Holiday, Mal Waldron)
  7. "Straight, No Chaser" (Thelonious Monk)
  8. "Right On"
  9. "Thoughts"
  10. "Yesterdays" (Jerome Kern, Otto Harbach)
  11. "All Alone" (Irving Berlin)
  • Recorded at the Swing Journal Jazz Workshop at Yamaha Hall in Tokyo, Japan on March 2 (tracks 1-5) and March 3 (tracks 6-11), 1971.

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.

Alto saxophone type of saxophone

The alto saxophone, also referred to as the alto sax, is a member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments invented by Belgian instrument designer Adolphe Sax in the 1840s, and patented in 1846. It is pitched in E, and is smaller than the tenor, but larger than the soprano. The alto sax is the most common saxophone and is commonly used in concert bands, chamber music, solo repertoire, military bands, marching bands, and jazz. The fingerings of the different saxophones are all the same so a saxophone player can play any type of saxophone.

Masabumi Kikuchi Japanese musician

Masabumi Kikuchi was a Japanese jazz pianist and composer known for his eclectic music that ranges from vanguard classical to fusion and digital music. He worked with a large number of diverse musicians, including Lionel Hampton, Sonny Rollins, Woody Herman, Mal Waldron, Joe Henderson, McCoy Tyner, Gil Evans, Elvin Jones, Miles Davis, Gary Peacock, Paul Motian, Billy Harper and Hannibal Peterson.

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References

  1. Mal Waldron discography accessed February 24, 2011