''Signals'' 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 ...

featuring solo performances recorded in Baarn, Holland in 1971 and released on the Freedom label.Mal Waldron discography
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Reception

The

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review by

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awarded the album 4 stars stating "this set features a solo outing by Waldron that fully displays his continually evolving style. He had moved away from his earlier

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influence to an extent and developed his own brooding style which made expert use of repetition. Waldron's four originals give him plenty of opportunity to stretch out".Yanow, S
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Track listing

:''All compositions by Mal Waldron'' # "Signals" — 7:38 # "Things That Go Bump in the Night" — 8:35 # "Zapata" — 10:30 # "A Touch of the Blues" — 8:40 :*Recorded in Baarn, Holland on August 14, 1971.

Personnel

– piano

References

{{Authority control Freedom Records albums Mal Waldron albums 1971 albums Solo piano jazz albums