The 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 ...

Mal Waldron and Steve Lacy first played together in 1958 at the Bowery neighborhood's Five Spot. Their association was long, if not necessarily prolific on record. Though their personal styles ...

Mal Waldron, a versatile pianist perhaps best known to jazz enthusiasts for his mainstream work as Billie Holiday’s last accompanist, has died. He was 77. Waldron died Monday in Brussels of ...

For piano-jazz audiences now familiar with the winding journeys of Brad Mehldau (contemporary jazz's Glenn Gould), or the Latin-postbop fury of McCoy Tyner, or the rich contemporary-standards ...

This is FRESH AIR. Jazz pianist Mal Waldron spent most of his career in Europe. Earlier in the 1950s, Waldron played in Charles Mingus's explosive band, made jam session records with John Coltrane and ...

Mal Waldron’s Mal/2 and Yusef Lateef’s Eastern Sounds OJC reissues deliver pristine 180g vinyl and showcase bold jazz innovation. Essential for serious fans. Have you ever packed and unpacked the same ...

Mal Waldron, 77, a versatile pianist perhaps best known to jazz enthusiasts for his mainstream work as Billie Holiday's last accompanist, died Dec. 2 in Brussels of complications from cancer, said his ...

Mal Waldron performing in Amsterdam in 1995. (Frans Schellekens / Redferns) By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to receive occasional promotional offers for programs ...

One of the great joys of jazz is seeing how the music of many of its giants — Dizzy, Miles, Duke, Mingus — reflected their unabashed personalities. Their music was synonymous with who they were in ...

The American jazz musician Mal Waldron, who has died aged 77, paid the most appropriate respect to his principal influences - Bud Powell and Thelonious Monk - and was a pianist of stubborn singularity ...

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