Free At Last - Extended Edition
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Release Date: 29 November 2019
Label: ECM
Packaging Type: Gate Fold Vinyl
No of Units: 2
Barcode: 602577986321
Genres: Jazz  Contemporary  
Release Date: 29 November 2019
Label: ECM
Packaging Type: Gate Fold Vinyl
No of Units: 2
Barcode: 602577986321
Genres: Jazz  Contemporary  
Description
Revisited and remastered, with additional takes, texts and photos, here is the very first ECM session, recorded in Ludwigsburg in November 1969, featuring the great American pianist Mal Waldron, whose resume included work with Coltrane, Mingus, Dolphy and Billie Holiday.
In his original liner notes, Mal wrote: "This album represents my meeting with free jazz. Free jazz for me does not mean complete anarchy… You will hear me playing rhythmically instead of soloing on chord changes." As Jazz Journal noted, "tough, two-handed modal blues" predominates, and the music sounds as fresh now as the day it was recorded. Indeed, the tersely-grooving "Boo" and "Rock My Soul" could be club hits half a century later.
The Extended Anniversary Edition of Free At Last is issued as an audiophile vinyl double album.
Personnel: Mal Waldron (piano), Isla Eckinger (double bass), Clarence Becton (drums)
Tracklisting
Giovanni Guidi, James Brandon Lewis, Thomas Morgan & Joao Lobo
Jordina Milla & Barry Guy
Tomasz Stanko Quartet
Norma Winstone & Kit Downes
Oded Tzur
Kenny Wheeler, Lee Konitz, Dave Holland & Bill Frisell
Fred Hersch
John Taylor, Norma Winstone & Kenny Wheeler
Lux Quartet
Franco Ambrosetti
Kristin Lee
Omer Leshem
Moksha
Maya Cohen
Knut Reiersrud Band
Erlend Skomsvoll Trio