The Supper Table

Since I served up all three tracks from side 2 of The Quest the only logical thing to do is add side 1, and I love logic the way that I love this album...close enough. Waldron's compositions are sparse and evocative, highly emotive, spacious enough to give the soloists freedom, tightly woven enough to trap them like butterflies without trapping their wings. Do you know why I say that? It's because it's true, not exactly factual, but after listening to this album for 10 years I can say it's true. This is like a hurricane in a bottle. 1. Status Seeking 2. Duquility 3. Thirteen 4. We Diddit

I can't name a favorite band, musician, or album but I can name a favorite recording Warm Canto from Mal Waldron's The Quest featuring Eric Dolphy , Ron Carter and Booker Ervin. It has been my favorite for over ten years, for longer than I have known that it was my favorite. Do you have those songs that you play over and over until you can barely stand them, then you play them again and it's almost like new again? That was my experience with Warm Canto , except I never got sick of it and for years hearing it was exactly like the first time again-- my breath would catch, I would lose my train of thought and stare, gaping at the stereo. My bride was 30 minutes late for our wedding, no biggie, I knew where she was and I had been running around to be ready in time for our wedding, it was nice to catch my breath, it was nice to hear my song 5 or 6 times. It is the perfect post-modern love march. No Here Comes the Bride, it's an homage to love, the struggle, th...