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8 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

Amigos,

I just stumbled across this Mal Waldron write-up from The Nation, published in 2017.  I haven't even read it yet -- just a quick scan -- so I make no promises regarding its quality.  Looks promising though.

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/mal-waldrons-ecstatic-minimalism/

Thnx for sharing .... at a first glance seems to be an interesting read ....

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47 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

Amigos,

I just stumbled across this Mal Waldron write-up from The Nation, published in 2017.  I haven't even read it yet -- just a quick scan -- so I make no promises regarding its quality.  Looks promising though.

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/mal-waldrons-ecstatic-minimalism/

Thanks for sharing that! Looks interesting

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On Spotify there’s this session called the Search. It contains two long songs: the Search and Entrance. It was released by Black Lion and released digital only in 2013. Never heard of this session and there’s no information on the web whatsoever. Anyone who has some more info like record date and personell? Or anyone who has good contact with Black Lion?

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41 minutes ago, Pim said:

On Spotify there’s this session called the Search. It contains two long songs: the Search and Entrance. It was released by Black Lion and released digital only in 2013. Never heard of this session and there’s no information on the web whatsoever. Anyone who has some more info like record date and personell? Or anyone who has good contact with Black Lion?

Tom Lord disco does not include any Mal Waldron Black Lion sessions, other than ‘Blues For Lady Day’ and the live session ‘A Little Bit Of Miles’, both reissued in one single BL cd.

No reference to any performance of ‘Entrance’ either (there’s ‘One Entrance, Many Exits’, of course). And ‘The Search’ appears only in the Impulse session for ‘Sweet Love, Bitter’ and the Enja session for ‘A Touch Of The Blues’.

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Here is the release page by the label

https://1201music.com/black-lion-vault

Tom Hull  on his page notes that

"Mal Waldron: The Search (1970s [2012], Black Lion Vault): Previously unissued piano trio, two songs (one also on a 1972 Enja album), 33:24, no credits for bass-drums, may have been recorded at Montmartre Jazzhuis in Copenhagen; second piece, "Entracte," is especially strong with its piano-drums dialogue; docked a bit for lack of credits. B+(**)"

so Pim is not making this up ;) seems to be a tape of Waldron playing two long pieces somewhere some time in in the early 70s... not hard to imagine that tapes like that exist, frustrating that the label does not even provide the most basic information - then again "recorded early 70s" may be all they know

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10 minutes ago, Niko said:

Here is the release page by the label

https://1201music.com/black-lion-vault

Tom Hull  on his page notes that

"Mal Waldron: The Search (1970s [2012], Black Lion Vault): Previously unissued piano trio, two songs (one also on a 1972 Enja album), 33:24, no credits for bass-drums, may have been recorded at Montmartre Jazzhuis in Copenhagen; second piece, "Entracte," is especially strong with its piano-drums dialogue; docked a bit for lack of credits. B+(**)"

so Pim is not making this up ;) seems to be a tape of Waldron playing two long pieces somewhere some time in in the early 70s... not hard to imagine that tapes like that exist, frustrating that the label does not even provide the most basic information - then again "recorded early 70s" may be all they know

Only digital format, it seems...

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5 hours ago, EKE BBB said:

Tom Lord disco does not include any Mal Waldron Black Lion sessions, other than ‘Blues For Lady Day’ and the live session ‘A Little Bit Of Miles’, both reissued in one single BL cd.

No reference to any performance of ‘Entrance’ either (there’s ‘One Entrance, Many Exits’, of course). And ‘The Search’ appears only in the Impulse session for ‘Sweet Love, Bitter’ and the Enja session for ‘A Touch Of The Blues’.

Not listed on Bruyninckx either.

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On 11/13/2020 at 1:41 AM, Pim said:

On Spotify there’s this session called the Search. It contains two long songs: the Search and Entrance. It was released by Black Lion and released digital only in 2013. Never heard of this session and there’s no information on the web whatsoever. Anyone who has some more info like record date and personell? Or anyone who has good contact with Black Lion?

those Black Lion digital releases are strange. They also did a Jym Young Trio that's pretty cool -- would be nice if they'd put this stuff out on CD with proper attribution, but maybe that's asking a bit too much!

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19 minutes ago, clifford_thornton said:

Picked this up recently -- fascinating resource, though it only covers up through the 1988 publication date.

https://jazzrecordcenter.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1_11&products_id=487

That looks interesting. Are there any surprises in the book or is it comparable to jazzdisco.org? Never seen that book before. 

 

12 hours ago, Chuck Nessa said:

All of the Enjas are worthy.

 

Imo only Mingus Lives is a little less interesting. All the others are indeed very, very much worth listening to. The 70’s was a great decade for Mal

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