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Mal Waldron
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Mal Waldron stands as one of the most singular and uncompromising figures in modern jazz—a pianist and composer whose music fused blues depth, modernist rigor, and an austere emotional honesty. Over a career spanning more than five decades, Waldron developed a style instantly recognizable for its percussive touch, repetitive motifs, dark harmonic palette, and an unflinching willingness to confront silence as an expressive force. While never a conventional virtuoso in the showy sense, Waldron’s influence on post-bop, avant-garde jazz, and European improvisational music remains profound.
Stardust & Starlight At The Jazz Showcase
By Mal Waldron
Label: Resonance Records
Released: 2027
Track listing: All Alone; All God's Chillun Got Rhythm; Fire Waltz; I Thought About You; It Could Happen To
You; 'Round Midnight; Stella By Starlight; Old Folks; Stardust.
Mal Wadron, Sam Rivers, Nick Fraser, Meredith Bates, and much more
by Lawrence Peryer
An hour of creative music where archival recordings and new releases share equal footing. Irreversible Entanglements and a newly surfaced 1984 Mal Waldron-Sam Rivers improvisation open the show; Alabaster DePlume, a Daunik Lazro-Joëlle Léandre-Paul Lovens trio, Work Money Death, and Nick Fraser carry the middle sets; and Vancouver composer Meredith Bates closes it out with music ...
New Music from Joe Fiedler, Billy Childs, Maria Grand, And More
by Bob Osborne
The present and the past collide in this twelve release set of new albums. The first five featured tracks are from recently recorded material demonstrating the best modern jazz can offer. The remaining seven tracks are historical recordings, never before released, from the Elemental and Resonance labels for Record Store Day 2026. All of these capture ...
Catherine Russell, Nat Reeves, Bobby Broom & John Beasley
by Joe Dimino
We kick off Episode 957 of Neon Jazz with a true living legend--John Beasley--a masterful bridge between jazz's rich past and its ever-evolving present. Teaming up with the powerhouse SWR Big Band, he sets the tone with his stunning 2026 release Invisible Piano. From there, the journey rolls through a lineup of modern greats and enduring ...
Mal Waldron: Stardust & Starlight At The Jazz Showcase
by Dan McClenaghan
April 2026 sees Zev Feldman--a man devoted to finding unreleased tapes of past jazz masters, well-known and lesser-known--bringing us four excellent live recordings on his Resonance Records label. All of these shows were captured at the Jazz Showcase in Chicago. Pianist Ahmad Jamal's At the Jazz Showcase comes from 1976; Reedman Yusef Lateef's Alight Upon The ...
Mal Waldron: Stardust & Starlight At The Jazz Showcase
by Pierre Giroux
The never-before-released Stardust & Starlight: At The Jazz Showcase captures pianist Mal Waldron in August 1979, first in solo, then in the company of bassist Steve Rodby and drummer Wilbur Campbell, then in dialogue with the ever-incisive saxophonist Sonny Stitt, and always in conversation with himself. Resonance Records issues this performance as a limited-edition 180-gram 2-LP ...
Joe Henderson: Consonance: Live At The Jazz Showcase
by Joshua Weiner
After 15 years in the vaults, Consonance: Live at the Jazz Showcase represents the first fruits of “Jazz Detective" producer Zev Feldman's expedition into the tape archives of Chicago club owner Joe Segal. Working with Joe's son Wayne Segal, Feldman and Resonance Records founder George Klabin have prepared a quartet of vinyl sets, recorded live at ...
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