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Mal Waldron: Nervous
I found my way to Mal Waldron’s Nervous piano solo on the double LP, They All Played Bebop (released in 1982). Recorded on 5 December 1957, it was part of the LP, The Sound of Jazz, which was followed on 8 December by the TV broadcast of the same name. The restless, edgy feeling conveyed through Waldron’s musical imagination is a notable “utterance” of the word’s meaning as expressed in our universal language.

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