Search results for "Mal Waldron"

Steve Lacy and Mal Waldron: A Case Of Plus 4's (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music March 18, 09

Steve Lacy's work with pianist Mal Waldron underscores his attachment to the jazz mainstream. For while a performan...

David Murray & Mal Waldron: Soul Eyes (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music July 24, 08

"Soul Eyes" is Mal Waldron's most famous composition, recorded by John Coltrane on Interplay for 2 Trumpets and 2 Ten...

David Murray & Mal Waldron: I Should Care (Rating: 83/100) posted in Music July 24, 08

So many great pianists have put their stamp on this standard over the years: Thelonious Monk, Bud Powell and Bill Ev...

Steve Lacy and Mal Waldron: Snake-Out (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music March 19, 09

Mal Waldron's improvised introduction to "Snake-Out" has a distinctly Middle-Eastern air, and Steve Lacy's soprano ha...

Steve Lacy & Mal Waldron: House Party Starting (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music July 15, 08

Compared to Herbie Nichols's evocative original version, this Lacy-Waldron rendition should be called "House Party En...

Mal Waldron: Fire Waltz (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music November 24, 07

The fire on this, the original recording of one of the pianist’s most enduring original compositions, emanates primar...

Mal Waldron: Rat Now (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music June 16, 09

Free at Last marks the very first release from the ECM label, and “Rat Now,” the album’s opening track, will therefor...

Mal Waldron & Steve Lacy: Smada (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music June 02, 09

One of a number of engaging Waldron/Lacy duet recordings, the 1986 Sempre Amore CD stands out for its heartfelt tribu...

Charles Mingus: A Foggy Day (Rating: 82/100) posted in Music December 07, 07

Don't be fooled by the album cover. Max Roach is not on this track. The introduction is promising -- an avant-garde...

John Coltrane: Route 4 (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music September 05, 08

Among the many innovative technological failures of the mid- and late 1950s, the 16-rpm phonograph record stands as t...

Anthony Braxton: Four in One (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music October 22, 07

Since the mid-'70s, Braxton has periodically recorded “in the tradition,” playing standard repertoire with piano-trio...

Eric Dolphy (featuring Booker Little): Bee Vamp (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music December 19, 08

Booker Little's "Bee Vamp" is an exercise in chordal suspension containing a back-and-forth between two short ch...

Eric Dolphy & Booker Little: Fire Waltz (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music November 25, 07

Trumpeter Booker Little would be dead from uremia less than three months after this celebrated recording, a promising...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE TRUMPETERS YOU NEED TO KNOW ON A FIRST NAME BASIS

We all know about Dizzy & Miles, Louis & Wynton, Bix & Brownie. Some trumpeters are so famous, that even a single na...

Charles Mingus: Eulogy for Rudy Williams (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music October 22, 07

A tribute to the late saxophonist of the Savoy Sultans, drowned shortly before the session in a summer swimming accid...

Billie Holiday: Fine and Mellow (Sound of Jazz, 1957) (Rating: 99/100) posted in Music February 11, 08

This is generally acknowledged as the greatest jazz moment ever broadcast on national television. And with good reas...

Steve Lacy (featuring Elvin Jones): Four in One (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music August 02, 08

After a Roy Haynes/Max Roach-influenced drum break to open "Four in One," Elvin Jones declares his singular presence ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ESSENTIAL ELVIN JONES

     Elvin Jones, artwork by Michael Symonds While Kenny Clarke, Art Blakey, Roy Haynes...

Anthony Braxton: Played Twice (Rating: 89/100) posted in Music December 13, 08

Love him or hate him, Anthony Braxton is definitely one of a kind. When playing his own compositions, Braxton plays b...

Teddy Charles Tentet: The Quiet Time (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music May 13, 09

One of the most forward-looking musicians of his generation, Teddy Charles fell off the face of the earth after the e...

Billie Holiday: Fine And Mellow (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music August 16, 09

“I summed up all existence in an epigram,” Oscar Wilde once bragged; Lester Young doesn’t quite capture all existence...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: LESTER YOUNG AT 100

It’s hard to imagine what it was like. Today, New York City is so entrenched as the jazz scene of record that the...

Max Roach: Garvey's Ghost (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music October 15, 09

This is one of my favorite cuts of music of all time. It’s another example of how the title really speaks to what’s h...

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