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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. 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
Hope you enjoy
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Post by ChrisB on Jun 30, 2024 23:13:10 GMT
Thanks for your Choice, Mark!
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Post by MartinT on Jul 1, 2024 3:06:53 GMT
Another artist I haven't come across. Great!
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Post by John on Jul 1, 2024 6:18:04 GMT
I have no idea how I will get on with this album. Jazz can be hit or miss for me and genres like Krautrock have been usually been a miss for me.
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Post by MikeMusic on Jul 1, 2024 10:13:08 GMT
On the list .....
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Post by daytona600 on Jul 1, 2024 11:42:22 GMT
Mal Waldron and Terumasa Hino - Reminicent Suite
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Post by Slinger on Jul 1, 2024 12:46:29 GMT
I see the words "jazz pianist" and I'm immediately on my guard. Then I see "Krautrock" and I return to my default setting of confused. I'll give it a whirl.
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Post by Slinger on Jul 1, 2024 14:04:41 GMT
Nope, sorry, not for me, not in the slightest. This style always makes me think of each musician being in a separate studio at differing times of day and being started off with a click track and minimal instructions.
The second track was marginally better than the first.
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Post by MartinT on Jul 1, 2024 16:31:56 GMT
I don't hear the krautrock reference at all? Space jazz it might well be, for the lack of a better name. I have heard this kind of fusion(?) in the past and it never gels or sticks with me. Performers like Jean Luc Ponty, Eddy Louiss and Al Di Meola do it so much better.
Based on the descriptions, I have to give it 1/5.
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Post by MikeMusic on Jul 6, 2024 9:16:52 GMT
First listen Not bad. Will try again in a few days
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