Jazz Articles about Mal Waldron

About Mal Waldron

Album Review

Mal Waldron - Steve Lacy: The Mighty Warriors

Read "The Mighty Warriors" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
March 26, 2024

Producer/jazz detective Zev Feldman is still at it, ferreting out unreleased recordings from jazz giants of the past and releasing them with buffed-up sound quality and first-rate packaging. Long lost recordings from pianists Bill Evans, Thelonious Monk, Art Tatum and Ahmad Jamal have seen the light of the twenty-first century, thanks to Feldman, as has newly discovered music from trumpeter Chet Baker. Now it is pianist Mal Waldron (1925 -2002) and soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy's (1934 -2004) turn, with The ...

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Multiple Reviews

Sax & Piano: David Murray and Mal Waldron; Ellery Eskelin and Sylvie Courvoisier

by Kurt Gottschalk
March 7, 2009

Part of what makes David Murray one of the greatest jazz saxophonists there is is the way he has of making everything seem so effortless. Long, rich, rolling lines seem to flow with ease from his horn. It's that quality that makes a small portion of his enormous discography all the more special. Once in a while, when working with one of his elders, Murray seems reverent, even humbled. If much of the time his playing seems as simple as ...

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Live Review

The Mal Waldron Trio

by AAJ Staff
March 12, 2004

Mal Waldron TrioThe Blue Note New York, NY August 22, 2001The Blue Note jazz club in New York has presented some disparate double billings in recent memory. The Mal Waldron and Benny Green double feature is the latest in this unfortunate pairing trend. Benny Green performed his exclusively ballad set solo as an “opener" for Mal Waldron's trio, which featured the rule-breaking rhythm section of Reggie Workman on bass and percussionist Andrew Cyrille. ...