Artist: Mal Waldron Quintet, Steve Lacy
Album: One-Upmanship
Genre: Free Jazz
Labe: Enja Records 1998
Recording Date: 1978
Pianist Mal Waldron and soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy first recorded together in the late-'50s. Both spent most of the careers working and living in Europe, and this album was recorded in Germany. Both musicians mix a precise sense of angularity with deeply emotive poetics. The three quintet pieces, featuring a rhythm section and trumpet player Manfred Schoof, include the staggeringly beautiful "The Seagulls of Kristiansund." Lacy's playing is an apt voice for this piece's melancholy seascape. All the album's compositions were written by Waldron; ONE-UPMANSHIP also includes three solo piano pieces. Waldron recorded extensively during this time and ONE-UPMANSHIP is one of his premiere titles of this era. AMG
Mal Waldron - piano
Steve Lacy - soprano saxophone
Manfred Schoof - trumpet
Jimmy Woode - bass
Makaya Ntshoko - drums
01. One-Upmanship 11:05
02. Duquility 8:31
03. The Seagulls of Kristiansund 11:20
04. Thoughtful 6:07
05. Hooray for Herbie 19:39
06. Soul Eyes 6:49
Recorded February 12, 1977 at Conny's Studio, Wolperath, Germany
The solo pieces (#2,#4,#6) were recorded May 8, 1978 at Tonstudio Bauer, Ludwigsburg
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