Percussion Bitter Sweet is an album by jazz drummer Max Roach recorded in 1961, released on Impulse! Records.

Review by Scott Yanow

A classic album, and one of the finest of drummer Max Roach's very productive career. The illustrious sidemen (trumpeter Booker Little; trombonist Julian Priester; Eric Dolphy on alto, bass clarinet, and flute; tenorman Clifford Jordan; pianist Mal Waldron, and bassist Art Davis, in addition to some guest percussionists) all have opportunities to make strong contributions. Dolphy's pleading alto solo on "Mendacity" is particularly memorable. Abbey Lincoln has two emotional and very effective vocals, but it is the overall sound of the ensembles and the political nature of the music that make this set (along with Roach's Freedom Now Suite) quite unique in jazz history.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYVROlfIXDQ&list

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Speak, Brother, Speak! is a live album by American jazz drummer Max Roach featuring performances recorded in San Francisco in 1962 and released by the Fantasy label.

Allmusic awarded the album 3 stars stating: "The music is somewhere between hard bop and the avant-garde, and the musicians really push each other, although the results are not quite essential. Clifford Jordan fans in particular will find this to be an interesting set"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0FWzbS2DsA&list=RDm0FWzbS2DsA&start_radio=1

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Jazz in the Garden at the Museum of Modern Art is a Teddy Charles jazz album recorded live at the Museum of Modern Art in August 1960 and released in February 1961. Music from Jazz In The Garden At The Museum Of Modern Art was later reissued under the title "Sounds of the Inner City.

In an AllMusic review of Sounds of the Inner City (a reissue of Jazz in the Garden at the Museum of Modern Art), Al Campbell stated "This is a noteworthy reissue considering that there are so few instances of Little's lyrical trumpet style and Ervin's passionate tenor recorded together." - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JxXsjIaBtY&list=PLXR-8M65tBdRfF_5cAsXQzHoxLKDlDhzA&index=1

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Strange Blues is an album by American saxophonist Jackie McLean, recorded in 1957 and released on the Prestige label. It features three tracks with McLean in a quartet featuring pianist Jon Mayer, bassist Bill Salter and drummer Larry Ritchie, one with a quartet featuring pianist Mal Waldron, bassist Art Phipps and drummer Art Taylor and one with a quartet featuring pianist Gil Coggins, bassist Paul Chambers and drummer Louis Hayes. Trumpeter Webster Young and tuba player Ray Draper appear together on two tracks.

The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow called the album "a generally strong set chiefly recommended to Jackie McLean completists." - Wikipedia

#JackieMCLean #PrestigeRecords #Jazz #MalWaldron #PaulChambers #Music

Here and There is a jazz album by multi-instrumentalist Eric Dolphy. It was originally released in 1966 on the Prestige label as PRLP 7382. It contains tracks recorded on three separate dates, in different locations...

In a review for AllMusic, Scott Yanow wrote: "Although it is easy to think of this set on a whole as containing 'leftovers,' Dolphy's strong playing on alto, flute and bass clarinet makes the music of strong interest to his fans." - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OEsSlPKQZA&list=RD6OEsSlPKQZA&start_radio=1

#EricDolphy #JakiByard #MalWaldron #BookerLittle #Jazz #Modal #FreeJazz #Music

The Call is an album by American jazz pianist Mal Waldron, recorded in 1971 and released on the JAPO label...It is Waldron's only album as a bandleader to feature him playing the electric piano.

It was included as one of the 640 albums covered in the 2013 Japanese book Obscure Sound, written by Chee Shimizu. Shimizu praised the album for its "funky psychedelic groove" and interplay between Waldron's electric piano and Jimmy Jackson's organ - Wikipedia

“I feel if you look back too much,
you trip when you take a step forward.”
–Mal Waldron

"Over two long takes, averaging 20 minutes each, he and an all-star team transport us to a warm and inviting sound that is equal parts hard bop jam, psychedelic dream, and free jazz meditation." Tyran Grillo

https://ecmreviews.com/tag/mal-waldron/

https://www.headheritage.co.uk/unsung/reviews/mal-waldron-the-call

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOT0GdfMEeA&list=RDHOT0GdfMEeA&start_radio=1

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Spanish Bitch by Mal Waldron, released on ECM in 1970.

Tyran Grillo wrote for ECM Reviews:

"SIDE A opens with the eponymous tune, and through its modal affiliations nods in the direction of Miles Davis and John Coltrane, who also appropriated Spanish scales for effect. In his hands, however, such motifs take on an almost ritualistic quality as scaffolding for an idiosyncratic reverie. From a web of bass and plucked piano strings emerges a vibrant block of chords. Waldron sets aside the theme almost as soon as he develops it, using it as a springboard for his laser-focused energy. Eckinger’s unusual solo sets up Waldron’s phenomenal own, building to steadfast density and playing off Braceful with glorious aplomb...

https://ecmreviews.com/2020/04/06/mal-waldron-spanish-bitch/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RE2q3kVf0fc&list=RDRE2q3kVf0fc&start_radio=1

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The Opening is a live album by American jazz pianist Mal Waldron featuring a performance recorded in Paris in 1970 and released on the French Futura label.

egrojworld wrote on their blog:

"A pianist with a brooding, rhythmic, introverted style, Mal Waldron's playing has long been flexible enough to fit into both hard bop and freer settings.
The Opening, recorded in November 1970 (a year before he had recorded Free at Last - the first ever release by the iconic ECM label) is a solo piano setting from a period in which he mainly performed this way between his visits to Japan and back home in the States.
When you hear Mal Waldron’s sound, you hear the New York sophistication, the stride piano thing, the Ellington-Monk continuum, the Bud Powell sound — and of course, Mal Waldron, as Charles Mingus admonished him always to retain…"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvjd6Kw09_A&list=RDwvjd6Kw09_A&start_radio=1

#MalWaldron #Jazz #JazzPiano #SoloPiano #Music