More Git' Go at Utopia

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More Git' Go at Utopia
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Live album by Mal Waldron
Released 1989
Recorded October 25 & 26, 1989
Genre Jazz
Length68:49
Label Tutu
Producer Horst Weber
Mal Waldron chronology
Quadrologue at Utopia
(1989)		More Git' Go at Utopia
(1989)		 Spring in Prague
(1990)

More Git' Go at Utopia is a live album by jazz pianist Mal Waldron featuring Jim Pepper recorded in 1989 and released on the German Tutu 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.

Jim Pepper Kaw-Muscogee Creek jazz musician

Jim Pepper was a Kaw-Muscogee Native American jazz saxophonist, composer, and singer. He came to prominence in the late 1960s as a member of The Free Spirits, an early jazz-rock fusion group who first recorded his best-known song, "Witchi Tai-To." Pepper went on to a lengthy career in jazz, recording almost a dozen albums as a bandleader and appearing as sideman with the likes of drummer Paul Motian and pianist Mal Waldron, often incorporating elements of Native American music into his style. He died of lymphoma, aged 50.

Contents

Track listing

All compositions by Mal Waldron except as indicated
  1. "More Git' Go at Utopia" — 20:43
  2. "Warm Puppies/Reflexion in Monk" (Jim Pepper) — 11:24
  3. "You Open My Eyes" — 9:42
  4. "Misreal Breeze #2" — 9:47
  5. "Dancing on the Flames" — 17:13
  • Recorded at the Utopia Club in Innsbruck, Austria on October 25 & 26, 1989

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.

Tenor saxophone type of saxophone

The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor and the alto are the two most commonly used saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B♭ (while the Alto is pitched in the key of E♭), and written as a transposing instrument in the treble clef, sounding an octave and a major second lower than the written pitch. Modern tenor saxophones which have a high F♯ key have a range from A♭2 to E5 (concert) and are therefore pitched one octave below the soprano saxophone. People who play the tenor saxophone are known as "tenor saxophonists", "tenor sax players", or "saxophonists".

Soprano saxophone the third smallest member of the saxophone family

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References

  1. ↑ Mal Waldron discography accessed March 10, 2011
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