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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