Respected by his peers as one of the most original musical thinkers in jazz, Mal Waldron had no trouble recruiting some of the best players of the day when he undertook a series of recording sessions for Prestige in the late 1950s
- Originally released in 1957, Mal Waldron’s Mal/2 album features some of jazz music’s biggest names. For Mal-2’s two dates, Mal Waldron (piano) is joined by saxophonists John Coltrane, Jackie McLean, and Sahib Shihab, trumpeters Bill Hardman and Idrees Sulieman, drummers Ed Thigpen and Arthur Taylor, and bassist Julian Euell
- This new edition is released as part of the newly relaunched Original Jazz Classics Series
- All-analog mastering from the original tapes by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio
- Pressed on 180-gram vinyl at RTI
• Single tip-on jacket with obi spine wrap.
