Free At Last (Mal Waldron Album)
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''Free at Last'' is an album by American jazz pianist
Mal Waldron Malcolm Earl "Mal" Waldron (August 16, 1925 – December 2, 2002) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger. He started playing professionally in New York in 1950, after graduating from college. In the following dozen years or so Wa ...
recorded in 1969 and released on the
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The album was the first release on the influential European jazz label.


Reception

The
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review by
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states, "The music overall is not that memorable or unique but it does have its unpredictable moments and finds Waldron really stretching himself."Yanow, S
Allmusic Review
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'', in a retrospective analysis of ECM's first 50 years, commented, "It's doubtful that anyone who heard ''Free at Last'' in its day took particular notice of its fledgling label, but an unheeded message is still a message: We're on a different wavelength."


Track listing


Personnel


Mal Waldron Trio

*
Mal Waldron Malcolm Earl "Mal" Waldron (August 16, 1925 – December 2, 2002) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger. He started playing professionally in New York in 1950, after graduating from college. In the following dozen years or so Wa ...
– piano *
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– bass * Clarence Becton – drums


Technical personnel

* Manfred Scheffner. Jazz by Post – producer * Kurt Rapp – engineer **
Manfred Eicher Manfred Eicher (born 9 July 1943) is a German record producer and the founder of ECM Records. Life and career Eicher was born in Lindau, Germany. He studied music at the Academy of Music in Berlin. He started as a double-bass player of classi ...
– supervision * Rufus Vedder – cover design * Mal Waldron – liner notes


References

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