The Blue Note jazz club in New York has presented some disparate double billings in recent memory. The Mal Waldron and Benny Green double feature is the latest in this unfortunate pairing trend. Benny ...

Mal Waldron’s passing this past December robbed jazz of one of its finest and most original pianists. His long career was marked by many high points, including stints with Billie Holiday, Charles ...

For piano-jazz audiences now familiar with the winding journeys of Brad Mehldau (contemporary jazz's Glenn Gould), or the Latin-postbop fury of McCoy Tyner, or the rich contemporary-standards ...

This is FRESH AIR. Jazz pianist Mal Waldron spent most of his career in Europe. Earlier in the 1950s, Waldron played in Charles Mingus's explosive band, made jam session records with John Coltrane and ...

Mal Waldron, a versatile pianist perhaps best known to jazz enthusiasts for his mainstream work as Billie Holiday’s last accompanist, has died. He was 77. Waldron died Monday in Brussels of ...

Mal Waldron’s Mal/2 and Yusef Lateef’s Eastern Sounds OJC reissues deliver pristine 180g vinyl and showcase bold jazz innovation. Essential for serious fans. Have you ever packed and unpacked the same ...

Mal Waldron, 77, a versatile pianist perhaps best known to jazz enthusiasts for his mainstream work as Billie Holiday's last accompanist, died Dec. 2 in Brussels of complications from cancer, said his ...

One of the great joys of jazz is seeing how the music of many of its giants — Dizzy, Miles, Duke, Mingus — reflected their unabashed personalities. Their music was synonymous with who they were in ...

Mal Waldron performing in Amsterdam in 1995. (Frans Schellekens / Redferns) By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to receive occasional promotional offers for programs ...

The American jazz musician Mal Waldron, who has died aged 77, paid the most appropriate respect to his principal influences - Bud Powell and Thelonious Monk - and was a pianist of stubborn singularity ...

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