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Yep ..... btw mirroring the potential (back then) of Curtis Lundy ....

Near time re-play .... :

Outstanding ....

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Yep ....

Charles Tyler' platter enjoys the same status here ....

The sound samples available were promising indeed ....

Excellent ....

Excellent ....

Reg the initial topic aka Mal Waldron on Prestige , as leader I would rate "The Quest" as indispensable .... as sidemean obviously the Eric Dolphy/Booker Little Five Spot recordings (with Thad Jones "Olio" as "left fielder" choice) .....

Yesterday evening .... :

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Interesting thoughts .... to me Mal Waldron had a number of great sideman dates on Prestige/NewJazz .... other recordings/sessions from that period suffered from the "Prestige approach" (aka assembling musicians rather by coincidence) and I'm not sure whether a different pianist would have saved the day...