Spring in Prague

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Spring in Prague
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Studio album by Mal Waldron
Released 1990
Recorded February 19 & 20, 1990
Genre Jazz
Length49:38
Label Alfa Jazz
Mal Waldron chronology
More Git' Go at Utopia
(1989) More Git' Go at Utopia1989
Spring in Prague
(1990)
Hot House
(1990) Hot House1990

Spring in Prague is an album by jazz pianist Mal Waldron recorded in 1990 and released on the Japanese Alfa Jazz 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.

Contents

Track listing

All compositions by Mal Waldron except as indicated
  1. "Revolution" – 6:05
  2. "East of the Sun" – 7:57
  3. "Let us Live - dedicated to East-Germany" – 6:12
  4. "Spring in Prague" – 7:00
  5. "On a Clear Day" – 6:42
  6. "Spring is Here" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) – 5:35
  7. "We Demand" – 10:07
  • Recorded in Munich, West Germany on February 19 & 20, 1990

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.

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References

  1. Mal Waldron discography accessed March 10, 2011