Left Alone '86
Left Alone '86 | ||||
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Live album by Mal Waldron & Jackie McLean | ||||
Released | 1987 | |||
Recorded | September 1, 1986 | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Length | 62:27 | |||
Label | Paddle Wheel | |||
Producer | Akira Tsuchikura | |||
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Jackie McLean chronology | ||||
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Left Alone '86 is an album by jazz pianist Mal Waldron and saxophonist Jackie McLean released on the Japanese Paddle Wheel label in 1986.[1] The album is a sequel to Waldron's 1959 recording Left Alone, on which McLean played on the title track.[2]
Reception
The AllMusic review by Ron Wynn awarded the album 4½ stars stating "Although he cannot maintain the same nonstop pace he had in the early '60s, Jackie McLean still plays magnificently. He demonstrated that repeatedly on this 1986 duo date with pianist Mal Waldron, whose lovely countermelodies, complementary solos, darting phrases, and supporting accompaniment proved a perfect contrast to McLean's forays. He is lyrical and engaging on some tracks; his explosive side emerges on others".[3]
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AllMusic | [3] |
Track listing
- All compositions by Mal Waldron except as indicated
- "Left Alone" (Billie Holiday, Mal Waldron) — 8:27
- "God Bless the Child" (Herzog, Holiday) — 3:23
- "All of Me" (Gerald Marks, Seymour Simons) — 6:49
- "Catwalk" — 9:47
- "Lover Man" (Jimmy Davis, Ram Ramirez, James Sherman) — 3:36
- "Minor Pulsation" — 12:27
- "Good Morning Heartache" (Ervin Drake, Dan Fisher, Irene Higginbotham) — 3:19
- "All Alone" — 3:30
- "Super Okra Blues" (Jackie McLean) — 5:06
- "Left Alone" [alternate take] (Holiday, Waldron) — 6:03
- Recorded at U-Port Kan'i Hoken Hall in Tokyo, Japan on September 1, 1986
Personnel
- Mal Waldron — piano
- Jackie McLean — alto saxophone (tracks 1-7, 9 & 10)
- Herbie Lewis — bass (tracks 1-7, 9 & 10)
- Eddie Moore — drums (tracks 1-7, 9 & 10)
References
- v
- t
- e
leader
or
co-leader
- Mal-1 (1956)
- Mal/2 (1957)
- The Dealers (1957)
- Mal/3: Sounds (1958)
- Just Wailin' (1958)
- Mal/4: Trio (1958)
- Left Alone (1959)
- Impressions (1959)
- The Quest (1961)
- Sweet Love, Bitter (1967)
- Ursula (1969)
- Free at Last (1969)
- Tokyo Bound (1970)
- Tokyo Reverie (1970)
- Blood and Guts (1970)
- Spanish Bitch (1970
- The Opening (1970)
- Mal: Live 4 to 1 (1970)
- The Call (1971)
- First Encounter (1971)
- Number Nineteen (1971)
- Black Glory (1971)
- Mal Waldron Plays the Blues (1971)
- Signals (1971)
- Journey Without End (1971)
- Blues for Lady Day (1972)
- A Little Bit of Miles (1972)
- Jazz a Confronto 19 (1972)
- A Touch of the Blues (1972)
- Mal Waldron on Steinway (1972)
- Mal Waldron with the Steve Lacy Quintet (1972)
- The Whirling Dervish (1972)
- Meditations (1972)
- Up Popped the Devil (1973)
- Hard Talk (1974)
- Moods (1977)
- Mingus Lives (1979)
- Mal 81 (1981)
- Live at Dreher, Paris 1981 (1981)
- What It Is (1981)
- One Entrance, Many Exits (1982)
- In Retrospect (1982)
- Breaking New Ground (1983)
- Mal Waldron Plays Eric Satie (1983)
- You and the Night and the Music (1983)
- Encounters (1984)
- Dedication (1985)
- Sempre Amore (1986)
- Left Alone '86 (1986)
- Update (1986)
- The Git Go – Live at the Village Vanguard (1986)
- The Seagulls of Kristiansund (1986)
- Our Colline's a Treasure (1987)
- Remembering the Moment (1987)
- The Super Quartet Live at Sweet Basil (1987)
- Mal, Dance and Soul (1987)
- Evidence (1988)
- Art of the Duo (1988)
- No More Tears (For Lady Day) (1988)
- Crowd Scene (1989)
- Where Are You? (1989)
- Quadrologue at Utopia (1989)
- More Git' Go at Utopia (1989)
- Spring in Prague (1990)
- Hot House (1990)
- I Remember Thelonious (1992)
- My Dear Family (1993)
- Waldron-Haslam (1994)
- After Hours (1994)
- Communiqué (1994)
- Mal, Verve, Black & Blue (1994)
- Two New (1995)
- Silence (with David Murray, 2001)
Gene
Ammons
- Jammin' with Gene (1956)
- Funky (1957)
- Jammin' in Hi Fi with Gene Ammons (1957)
- The Big Sound (1958)
- Groove Blues (1958)
- Velvet Soul (1962)
- Angel Eyes (1962)
- Sock! (1962)
Jackie
McLean
- 4, 5 and 6 (1956)
- Jackie's Pal (1956)
- Jackie McLean & Co. (1957)
- Makin' the Changes (1957)
- A Long Drink of the Blues (1957)
- Strange Blues (1957)
- McLean's Scene (1957)
Charles Mingus
- Jazz Composers Workshop (1954)
- Mingus at the Bohemia (1955)
- The Charles Mingus Quintet & Max Roach (1955)
- Pithecanthropus Erectus (1956)
- Blues & Roots (1959)
Prestige
All Stars
- Baritones and French Horns (aka, Dakar, 1957)
- Four Altos (1957)
- Interplay for 2 Trumpets and 2 Tenors (1957)
- The Prestige Jazz Quartet (1957)
- Wheelin' & Dealin' (1957)
others
- All Night Long (Kenny Burrell, 1956)
- Earthy (Kenny Burrell, 1957)
- 2 Guitars (Kenny Burrell & Jimmy Raney, 1957)
- Where? (Ron Carter, 1961)
- The Teddy Charles Tentet (1956)
- Coolin' (Teddy Charles, 1957)
- Cattin' with Coltrane and Quinichette (John Coltrane & Paul Quinichette, 1957)
- Coltrane (1957)
- Dakar (John Coltrane, Pepper Adams & Cecil Payne, 1957)
- At the Five Spot (Eric Dolphy, both volumes, 1961)
- Tuba Sounds (Ray Draper, 1957)
- Hornful of Soul (aka, Catwalk, Bennie Green, 1960)
- Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday at Newport (1957)
- Lady in Satin (Billie Holiday, 1958)
- So Warm (Etta Jones, 1961)
- After Hours (Thad Jones, 1957)
- Olio (Thad Jones, 1957)
- Reflections: Steve Lacy Plays Thelonious Monk (1958)
- Straight Ahead (Abbey Lincoln, 1961)
- Teo (Teo Macero, 1957)
- On the Sunny Side (Paul Quinichette, 1957)
- Percussion Bitter Sweet (Max Roach, 1961)
- It's Time (Max Roach, 1962)
- Speak, Brother, Speak! (Max Roach, 1962)
- For Lady (Webster Young, 1957)