Mal: Live 4 to 1 explained

Mal: live 4 to 1
Type:	Live album
Artist:	Mal Waldron
Cover:	Mal Live 4 to 1.jpg
Released:	1971
Recorded:	November 19, 1970
Genre:	Jazz
Label:	Philips (Japan) West 54 Records (US)
Chronology:	Mal Waldron
Prev Title:	The Call
Prev Year:	1971
Next Title:	First Encounter
Next Year:	1971

Mal: Live 4 to 1 is a live album by American jazz pianist Mal Waldron featuring a performance recorded in Tokyo, Japan in 1971 and released on the Japanese Philips label.^[1] West 54 Records reissued the album on LP in 1980 as Left Alone - Mal Waldron Live.

Track listing

All compositions by Mal Waldron except as indicated

1. "Little Abbi"
2. "Blood And Guts"
3. "Willow Weep for Me" (Ann Ronell)
4. "You Don't Know What Love Is" (Don Raye, Gene de Paul)
5. "Don't Explain" (Billie Holiday, Arthur Herzog Jr.)
6. "Left Alone" (Billie Holiday, Mal Waldron)
7. "Straight, No Chaser" (Thelonious Monk)
8. "Right On"
9. "Thoughts"
10. "Yesterdays" (Jerome Kern, Otto Harbach)
11. "All Alone" (Irving Berlin)

• Recorded at the Swing Journal Jazz Workshop at Yamaha Hall in Tokyo, Japan on March 2 (tracks 1-5) and March 3 (tracks 6-11), 1971.

Personnel

• • Mal Waldron - piano Kohsuke Mine - alto saxophone (tracks 6 & 7)
• Masabumi Kikuchi - piano (tracks 1 & 2)
• Isao Suzuki - bass (tracks 6-9)
• Yoshiyuki Nakamura - drums (tracks 6-9)

Notes and References

1. http://www.jazzdisco.org/mal-waldron/catalog/#philips-fx-8513-14 Mal Waldron discography