Spanish Bitch

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Spanish Bitch
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Studio album by Mal Waldron
Released 1970
Recorded September 18, 1970
Genre Jazz
Label ECM
Producer Manfred Eicher
Mal Waldron chronology
Blood and Guts
(1970) Blood and Guts1970		Spanish Bitch
(1970)		 The Opening
(1970) The Opening1970

Spanish Bitch is an album by American jazz pianist Mal Waldron recorded in 1970 and released on the ECM label. [1] The album was the second recording on the influential European jazz label but only released in Japan.

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.

ECM Records German independent record label

ECM is an independent record label founded by Karl Egger, Manfred Eicher and Manfred Scheffner in Munich in 1969. While ECM is best known for jazz music, the label has released a variety of recordings, and ECM's artists often refuse to acknowledge boundaries between genres. ECM's motto is "the Most Beautiful Sound Next to Silence", according to a 1971 review of ECM releases in CODA, a Canadian jazz magazine.

Contents

Track listing

All compositions by Mal Waldron except as indicated
  1. "Spanish Bitch"
  2. "Eleanor Rigby" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney)
  3. "Black Chant"
  4. "All That Funk"
  • Recorded in Ludwigsburg, West Germany on September 18, 1970.

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.

Double bass Acoustic stringed instrument of the violin family

The double bass, or simply the bass, is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra.

Fred Arthur Braceful was a jazz drummer.

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References

  1. ↑ Mal Waldron discography accessed February 22, 2011
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