Mal-2_(album)

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Mal/2

1957 studio album by Mal Waldron

Mal/2 is an album by American jazz pianist Mal Waldron released on the Prestige label in November 1957.[1][2][3] The CD reissue added two additional recordings from the same sessions originally released on The Dealers (1957) as bonus tracks.

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Reception

The Allmusic review by Stephen Cook awarded the album 4 stars stating "Waldron here leads a potent crew on an engaging and original set of arrangements. A cut above many of the relatively straightforward and blues-based hard bop dates of the time".[4]

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Track listing

All compositions by Mal Waldron except as indicated
  1. "From This Moment On" (Cole Porter) – 6:15
  2. "J.M.'s Dream Doll" – 8:39
  3. "The Way You Look Tonight" (Dorothy Fields, Jerome Kern) – 8:25
  4. "One By One" – 9:41
  5. "Don't Explain" (Arthur Herzog Jr., Billie Holiday) – 6:58
  6. "Potpourri" – 6:36

CD reissue

  2. "Blue Calypso" – 8:58 Bonus track on CD reissue
  3. "Falling in Love with Love" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) – 11:39 Bonus track on CD reissue
  • Recorded at Rudy Van Gelder Studio in Hackensack, New Jersey on April 19 (tracks 2, 5, 6, 7, 8) and May 17 (tracks 1, 3, 4), 1957.

Personnel

References

  1. [1]
    DeVito, Chris; Fujioka, Yasuhiro; Schmaler, Wolf; Wild, David (2013). Porter, Lewis (ed.). The John Coltrane Reference. New York/Abingdon: Routledge. p. 463. ISBN 9780415634632. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
  2. [2]
    Editorial Staff, Cash Box (November 9, 1957). "November Album Releases" (PDF). The Cash Box. The Cash Box Publishing Co. Inc., NY. Retrieved 2 March 2020.
  3. [3]
    Mal Waldron discography accessed February 21, 2011
  4. [4]
    Cook, S. Allmusic Review accessed February 21, 2011
  5. [5]
    Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1454. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
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