Tokyo Bound

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Tokyo Bound
Tokyo Bound.jpg
Studio album by Mal Waldron
Released1970
RecordedFebruary 7 & 12, 1970
Genre Jazz
Length45:06
Label RCA Victor (Japan)
Mal Waldron chronology
Free at Last
(1969)		Tokyo Bound
(1970)		 Tokyo Reverie
(1970)

Tokyo Bound is a studio album by American jazz pianist Mal Waldron recorded in Tokyo in 1970 and released on the Japanese RCA Victor 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
  1. "Japanese Island" — 10:34
  2. "Rock One for Jimbosan" — 13:01
  3. "Atomic Energy" — 8:50
  4. "Mount Fuji" — 12:41
  • Recorded in Tokyo, Japan on February 7 & 12, 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.

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References

  1. ↑ Mal Waldron discography accessed February 23, 2011
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