Tracklist • FROM THIS MOMENT ON
• DON´T EXPLAIN
• THE WAY YOU LOOK TONIGHT
• ONE BY ONE
• J.M.´s DREAM DOLL
• POTPOURRI

 

Recording Data

Recorded at – Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, NJ, April 19, 1957

POTPOURRI
J.M.´s DREAM DOLL
DON´T EXPLAIN

Credits

Bass – JULIAN EUELL
Drums – ART TAYLOR
Piano – MAL WALDRON
Alto Saxophone – JACKIE McLEAN
Tenor Saxophone – JOHN COLTRANE
Trumpet – BILL HARDMAN

Recording Data

Recorded at – Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, NJ, May 17, 1957

THE WAY YOU LOOK TONIGHT
FROM THIS MOMENT ON
ONE BY ONE

Credits

Bass – JULIAN EUELL
Drums – ED THIGPEN
Piano – MAL WALDRON
Alto Saxophone – SAHIB SHIHAB
Baritone Saxophone – SAHIB SHIHAB
Tenor Saxophone – JOHN COLTRANE
Trumpet – IDREES SULIEMAN

BEFORE BECOMING AN EXPATRIATE IN 1965 AND EVENTUALLY SETTLING IN MUNICH, (WEST GERMANY), PIANIST MAL WALDRON CUT SEVERAL STATESIDE HARD BOP ALBUMS FULL OF HIS IDIOSYNCRATIC / MONK-ISH PIANO WORK, AND FEATURING CHOICE CONTRIBUTIONS BY SOME OF THE MUSIC’S FINEST. FOR THIS 1957 DATE, WALDRON WORKED WITH A STELLAR SEXTET INTERCHANGEABLY MANNED BY JOHN COLTRANE, JACKIE McLEAN, IDREES SULIEMAN, ART TAYLOR, AND OTHERS. BOOKENDED BY THE PIANIST’S EBULLIENT “POTPOURRI” AND THE AVANT-NOIR BLUES “ONE BY ONE”, THE SET ALSO INCLUDES A FETCHING COVER OF COLE PORTER’S “FROM THIS MOMENT ON” AND A BEAUTIFULLY COMPLEX ARRANGEMENT OF BILLIE HOLIDAY’S “DON’T EXPLAIN”. (WALDRON WAS HOLIDAY’S ACCOMPANIST FOR THE LAST TWO YEARS OF THE SINGER’S LIFE) SOLO HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE MCLEAN’S KEENLY CONSTRUCTED SOLO ON WALDRON’S “J.M.’S DREAM DOLL” (DEDICATED TO THE ALTO SAXOPHONIST AND HIS WIFE) AND SULIEMAN’S INCREDIBLY RICH AND SUPPLE TRUMPET WORK ON “ONE BY ONE”. FOR HIS PART, COLTRANE IS IN GOOD FORM THROUGHOUT, SAVE FOR A FEW SOUR NOTES AND SOME FALTERING SOLOS ; AT THIS TIME COLTRANE WAS STILL COMING INTO HIS OWN AND A FEW YEARS SHY OF THE MASTERFUL HARD BOP SIDES HE WOULD RECORD FOR ATLANTIC. WALDRON HERE LEADS A POTENT CREW ON AN ENGAGING AND ORIGINAL SET OF ARRANGEMENTS –––– UP FOR AUCTION A GORGEOUS COPY OF THIS ACCLAIMED LP...ACTUALLY, THE RECORD VISUALLY APPEARS IN VIRTUALLY UNPLAYED CONDITION...PERHAPS JUST PLAYED ONCE AND THEN CAREFULLY STORED FOR DECADES. THE LAMINATED COVER HAS NO WRITING, UPPER LEFT SIDE CORNER IS A BIT CRUSHED, BOTTOM RIGHT  SIDE  SEAM  IS  SLIGHTLY  WORN  (ABOUT 1’’)  –––   PRLP-7111-A / PRLP-7111-B  (ETCHED)  ; “RVG” AND “AB” STAMPED IN THE TRAIL-OFF  RUNOUT - KILLER COPY...

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