The music of this pianist, who played with giants like Billie Holiday, Charles Mingus and John Coltrane, can feel mysterious and private, but it rewards deep listening. Explore these 11 songs. Credit.

This is FRESH AIR. Jazz pianist Mal Waldron spent most of his career in Europe. Earlier in the 1950s, Waldron played in Charles Mingus's explosive band, made jam session records with John Coltrane and ...

The sensitivity reflected in much of Mal Waldron's music was a deep aspect of his psyche. The Harlem-born pianist, who died in Brussels, Belgium, in 2002, worked downtown with saxophonist Ike Quebec ...

The Académie du Jazz is the oldest and most respected jazz institution in France, created in 1954. Their electoral college is made up of 60 independent journalists, photographers, writers, radio ...

Mal Waldron’s Mal/2 and Yusef Lateef’s Eastern Sounds OJC reissues deliver pristine 180g vinyl and showcase bold jazz innovation. Essential for serious fans. Have you ever packed and unpacked the same ...

Though recent generations of hyper-virtuosic tenor-sax gunslingers might raise an eyebrow at his unintended squeaks and hoarse sounds, the veteran tenor player Archie Shepp has evolved a more ...

Mal Waldron, a versatile pianist perhaps best known to jazz enthusiasts for his mainstream work as Billie Holiday’s last accompanist, has died. He was 77. Waldron died Monday in Brussels of ...

Musician-composer Mal Waldron — whose childhood dreams of becoming a great pianist took him through the golden age of jazz alongside such legends as Billie Holiday, Charles Mingus and John Coltrane — ...

The voice of experience echoes through Silence, a duet recording by saxophonist David Murray and pianist Mal Waldron. Recorded a year before Waldron died in 2002, this is the legend’s last known ...

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