Mal Waldron With Eric Dolphy And Booker Ervin: The Quest

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Total Tracks: 7   Total Length: 41:33

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wonderful

SemolinaPilchard

Highly inventive compositions and richly warm musicianship and sound. Seven credits well spent.

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Stunning

Bad-Thoughts

Mal Waldron is a bridge between the worlds of Bop and Avant-garde Jazz. His compositions exude emotion and complexity. Warm Canto is particularly beautiful, starting off as an impressionist melody that drifts into a gentle swing. Nice solos on clarinet and cello, too.

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Desert Island top ten

robertwingfield

A simply indispensable record. The perfectly matched tones of Booker and Dolphy wail with incredible passion.

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wow

spiro

Why don't more people know about this disc and about this group. Ron Carter never ever sounded better or Eric Dolphy more lucid and Mal Waldron holds it all together in a way that . . . . aahh, just listen to it. Especially to the track Warm Canto. I repeat myself, wow.

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Although often reissued under Eric Dolphy’s name, this CD reissue gives the leadership back to pianist Mal Waldron. The seven originals not only feature altoist Dolphy (who makes a rare appearance on clarinet during “Warm Canto”) but tenor-saxophonist Booker Ervin, Ron Carter (on cello) and Waldron. With bassist Joe Benjamin and drummer Charlie Persip giving alert support, the complex music (which falls between hard bop and the avant-garde) is successfully interpreted. Worth checking out. – Scott Yanow