Release Date: 10 July 2013
Label: SLAM Productions
Packaging Type: Brilliant Case (Jewel Case size, Holds 2 CDs)
No of Units: 2
Barcode: 5028386050520
Genres: Jazz Contemporary
Description
A great double album of duo performances between pioneering jazz drummer Max Roach and pianist Mal Waldron, presenting the complete celebration concert for Waldon's 70th birthday. Not only the concert but the soundcheck and informal exchanges were caught on tape, including Max Roach's vocal tribute.
Max Roach: drums
Mal Waldron: piano
Recorded at the Desingel Arts Centre, Antwerp, Belgium. 20 Sept 1995.
Press:
"A release of considerable historical importance." - Ron Watson, Voice
"A master class in how great drumming is as much about timbre as rhythm...it is an astonishing sense of time that allows Roach and Waldron to play and listen at once. They play subtly out of time, creating non linear possibilities; total flow in two directions. This release is a manifesto for the unassailable - and unsuperseded - virtues of swing." - Ben Watson, Jazziz
"Roach's timbral palette is so deft his contributions are practically orchestral. Having avoided the trap of self-emulation, these two veterans can now stretch out and have fun." - Hi-Fi News & Record Review
Tracklisting
Esmond Selwyn
Paul Dunmall, Paul Rogers, Philip Gibbs & Hamid Drake
Lol Coxhill
Lol Coxhill, George Haslam, Howard Riley & Paul Rutherford
Various Artists
Lol Coxhill & George Haslam
Improgressive
Howard Riley & Elton Dean
Mark Guiliana
Nigel Price Organ Trio
Conrad Herwig
Norma Winstone & Kit Downes
Oded Tzur
Su Rossy Girod, Nat Su, Jorge Rossy
Jonathan Salvi Arugula Sextet
Bob Baldwin
