Post by yorkshireman on Jun 30, 2024 22:53:41 GMT
Mall Waldron - The Call
The Call was the first album I had heard by Mal Waldron, at the time it was exciting, very different and just captured me, it was very differnet from my usual Rock & Metal listening material.
It has been a firm favourite of mine ever since, so for me it deserves it place here.
The Album
The Call is an album by American jazz pianist Mal Waldron recorded in 1971 and released on the JAPO label.
Everybody knows that Mal Waldron was the first artist released by Manfred Eicher's fledgling label ECM.
Less well known is that the veteran pianist also had the maiden release on Eicher's experimental jazz imprint JAPO.
That album, The Call, placed Waldron right at the heart of the burgeoning krautrock scene, teaming him up with affiliates of Amon Düül, Tangerine Dream and Et Cetera.
The result was tripped-out, electrified space jazz of the very highest order . . .
It is Waldron's only album as a bandleader to feature him playing the electric piano.
AllMusic awarded the album 3 stars.
AllMusic awarded the album 3 stars.
It was included as one of the 640 albums covered in the 2013 Japanese book Obscure Sound, written by Chee Shimizu.
Shimizu praised the album for its "funky psychedelic groove" and interplay between Waldron's electric piano and Jimmy Jackson's organ.
Recorded at Tonstudio Bauer in Ludwigsburg, West Germany on February 1, 1971.
By musicians
Mal Waldron — electric piano
Jimmy Jackson — organ
Eberhard Weber — electric bass
Fred Braceful — drums, percussion
Recorded at Tonstudio Bauer in Ludwigsburg, West Germany on February 1, 1971.
By musicians
Mal Waldron — electric piano
Jimmy Jackson — organ
Eberhard Weber — electric bass
Fred Braceful — drums, percussion
Hope you enjoy 
