Signals (Mal Waldron album)

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Studio album by Mal Waldron
Released 1971
Recorded August 14, 1971
Genre Jazz
Length35:23
Label Freedom
Producer Alan Bates
Mal Waldron chronology
Mal Waldron Plays the Blues
(1971)		Signals
(1971)		 Journey Without End
(1971)

Signals is an album by American jazz pianist Mal Waldron featuring solo performances recorded in Baarn, Holland in 1971 and released on the Freedom 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.

Freedom Records was a jazz record label headed by Shel Safran and founded by Alan Bates as a division of Black Lion Records.

Contents

Reception

The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 4 stars stating "this set features a solo outing by Waldron that fully displays his continually evolving style. He had moved away from his earlier Thelonious Monk influence to an extent and developed his own brooding style which made expert use of repetition. Waldron's four originals give him plenty of opportunity to stretch out". [2]

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

Thelonious Monk American jazz pianist and composer

Thelonious Sphere Monk was an American jazz pianist and composer. He had a unique improvisational style and made numerous contributions to the standard jazz repertoire, including "'Round Midnight", "Blue Monk", "Straight, No Chaser", "Ruby, My Dear", "In Walked Bud", and "Well, You Needn't". Monk is the second-most-recorded jazz composer after Duke Ellington, which is particularly remarkable as Ellington composed more than a thousand pieces, whereas Monk wrote about 70.

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Track listing

All compositions by Mal Waldron
  1. "Signals" — 7:38
  2. "Things That Go Bump in the Night" — 8:35
  3. "Zapata" — 10:30
  4. "A Touch of the Blues" — 8:40
  • Recorded in Baarn, Holland on August 14, 1971.

Personnel

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References

  1. ↑ Mal Waldron discography accessed February 25, 2011
  2. 1 2 Yanow, S. Allmusic Review accessed February 25, 2011
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