''Sweet Love, Bitter'' is a soundtrack 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 ...

recorded in 1967 for the film of the same name written by Lewis Jacobs and directed by Herbert Danska and released on the Impulse! label.Mal Waldron discography
accessed February 22, 2011 The movie was a loose fictitious retelling of Charlie Parker's last years and a portrait of the jazz scene in 1960s New York.

Reception

The

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review by Ken Dryden awarded the album 4 stars stating "the music by Waldron is brilliant. Known for his lyrical yet often dark compositions, Waldron's work on this session will surprise some of his biggest fans".Dryden, K
Allmusic Review
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Track listing

:''All compositions by Mal Waldron'' # "Loser's Lament (Theme From "Sweet Love, Bitter")" — 5:11 # "Della" — 2:36 # "Hillary" — 2:23 # "Espresso Time" — 2:11 # "Keel" — 2:40 # "Smokin'" — 2:06 # "Della's Dream" — 2:23 # "The Search" — 1:21 # "Candy's Ride" — 1:18 # ""Bread"" — 1:47 # "Eagle Flips Out" — 2:14 # "Brindle's Place" — 3:07 # "Sleep Baby Sleep — 2:11 :*Recorded in New York City on March 23, 1967.

Personnel

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piano A piano is a keyboard instrument that produces sound when its keys are depressed, activating an Action (music), action mechanism where hammers strike String (music), strings. Modern pianos have a row of 88 black and white keys, tuned to a c ...

* Dave Burns —

trumpet The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz musical ensemble, ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet—with the highest Register (music), register in the brass family—to the bass trumpet, pitche ...

* George Coleman —

tenor saxophone The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor and the alto are the two most commonly used saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B (whi ...

alto saxophone The alto saxophone is a member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments. Saxophones were invented by Belgians, Belgian instrument designer Adolphe Sax in the 1840s and patented in 1846. The alto saxophone is pitched in the key of E♭ ( ...

* Charles Davis — baritone saxophone * Richard Davis (tracks 1 & 4) George Duvivier (tracks 2, 3 & 5–13) — bass * Al Dreares —

drums The drum is a member of the percussion instrument, percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system, it is a membranophones, membranophone. Drums consist of at least one Acoustic membrane, membrane, c ...

References

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