Mal Waldron Trio - Free At Last (Extended Edition) 2xLP RM Booklet Unreleased
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Mal Waldron Trio - Free At Last (Extended Edition) 2xLP RM 16 page Booklet ECM Jazz
Mal in a piano trio is heaven his bluesy percussive style of minimal paying speaks to me ... essencial
Recorded on November 24, 1969 at the Tonstudio Bauer, Ludwigsburg.
Gatefold packaging and includes an LP-sized 16 page booklet with photos and liner notes.
Tracks C1 - D2 previously unreleased.
Free at Last is an album by American jazz pianist Mal Waldron recorded in 1969 and released on the ECM label. The album was the first release on the influential European jazz label.
In his liner notes, Waldron described Free At Last as “My meeting with free jazz. Free jazz for me does not mean complete anarchy… You will hear me playing rhythmically instead of soloing on chord changes.” It’s groove-based and so not free in that sense; “playing rhythmically” refers to Waldron’s minimal style. The compositions are chord-based, but simple – mostly hard-driving, bluesy and modal.
The album was the very first ECM session, recorded in 1969. It was the first of three Waldron albums recorded by ECM during 1969-1971, the others being Spanish Bitch with Eberhard Weber, and The Call with the same trio as Free At Last. It’s reissued here with alternative takes of Balladina, 1-3-234, Boo and Willow Weep For Me – it’s available initially as a double-LP. It’s good to have the alternative versions – those of the two ballads in particular, which are more propulsive. An epochal release, for more than one reason.
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