MAL WALDRON & STEVE LACY – Play Monk, Ellington & Strayhorn – Live At Yoshi’s 1994 – 2LP – Deluxe 180g Vinyl [APR 10]

Description

2LP – Limited EditionDouble 180g Vinyl Set – Remastered from the original tapes. Includes exclusive photos by Hugo Peeters and a special essay by renowned jazz author Kevin Whitehead.

Released for the very first time in collaboration with the musicians’ respective estates, Live At Yoshi’s 1994 presents Mal Waldron and Steve Lacy in a programme built around compositions mainly by Thelonious Monk, Duke Ellington and Bill Strayhorn. Also includes Steve Lacy‘s original ‘Prayer‘ and Mal Waldron‘s ‘Snake Out‘, plus their joint composition ‘Blues‘. Outside of the main programme are Bud Powell‘s ‘I’ll Keep Loving You‘, and Elmo Hopes‘s ‘Roll On‘.

Jazz has always been the home of great partnerships. Those that immediately come to mind are Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn, Lester Young and Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie, John Coltrane and his Classic Quartet, Bill Evans and Scott LaFaro, but there’s also one partnership deserving of more attention – the collaborations between pianist Mal Waldron (1925 -2002) and saxophonist Steve Lacy (1934 – 2004).

Mal Waldron: piano
Steve Lacy: soprano saxophone

Live At Yoshi’s, Oakland, California, June 8, 1994.
Produced by Jordi Soley and Carlos Agustin Calembert.
Original audio tapes kindly provided by Patrick Wilen & Hiromi Waldron

Tracklist:

Disc 1
1. Monk’s Dream
2. Evidence
3. I’ll Keep Loving You
4. Prayer
5. In A Sentimental Mood
6. Let’s Call This
7. Epistrophy

Disc 2
1. Johnny Come Lately
2. Roll On
3. In A Mellow Tone
4. ’round Midnight
5. Bemsha Swing
6. Blues
7. Snake Out

Remastered from the original tapes.
Also available as a Limited edition 2CD set – deluxe presentation.

Includes exclusive photos by Hugo Peeters and a special essay by renowned jazz author Kevin Whitehead.