''The Call'' is an 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 1971 and released on the JAPO label.Mal Waldron discography
accessed February 24, 2011 The album was the first release on the short-lived European jazz label. It is Waldron's only album as a bandleader to feature him playing the

electric piano An electric piano is a musical instrument which produces sounds when a performer presses the keys of a piano-style musical keyboard. Pressing keys causes mechanical hammers to strike metal strings, metal reeds or wire tines, leading to vibrations ...

Reception

AllMusic AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on musicians and bands. Initiated in 1991, the databas ...

awarded the album 3 stars. It was included as one of the 640 albums covered in the 2013 Japanese book ''Obscure Sound'', written by Chee Shimizu. Shimizu praised the album for its "funky

psychedelic Psychedelics are a subclass of hallucinogenic drugs whose primary effect is to trigger non-ordinary states of consciousness (known as psychedelic experiences or "trips").Pollan, Michael (2018). ''How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of ...

groove" and interplay between Waldron's electric piano and Jimmy Jackson's organ.

Track listing

:''All compositions by Mal Waldron'' # "The Call" — 18:53 # "Thoughts" — 21:50 :*Recorded at Tonstudio Bauer in Ludwigsburg, West Germany on February 1, 1971.

Personnel

—

* Jimmy Jackson — organ *

Eberhard Weber Eberhard Weber (born 22 January 1940, in Stuttgart, Germany) is a German double bassist and composer. As a bass player, he is known for his highly distinctive tone and phrasing. Weber's compositions blend chamber jazz, European classical music, m ...

—

electric bass The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass (), is the lowest-pitched member of the string family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck The ...

Fred Braceful Fred Arthur Braceful (May 2, 1938 – March 17, 1995) was a jazz drummer. Early life Braceful was born in Detroit on May 2, 1938. He played in his tenor saxophonist father's band early in his career. He served in the U.S. military in Germany, and ...

—

drums A drum kit (also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums) is a collection of drums, cymbals, and other Percussion instrument, auxiliary percussion instruments set up to be played by one person. The player (drummer) typically holds a pair o ...

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Exc ...

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Call (Mal Waldron album), The JAPO Records albums Mal Waldron albums 1971 albums Albums produced by Manfred Eicher