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December 2, 2002 (77 years old)
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Leo
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Malcolm Earl "Mal" Waldron is an American jazz pianist, composer and composer. He started playing professionally in New York in 1950 after graduating from college. For the next decade, Waldron led his own groups and performed for those led by Charles Mingus, Jackie McLean, John Coltrane, and Eric Dolphy, among others. During Waldron's period as home pianist for the Prestige label in the late 1950s, he appeared on dozens of albums and composed for many of them, including writing the most popular of all, "Soul Eyes", for Coltrane. Waldron served as a vocal accompanist for the singers and was Billie Holiday's regular accompanist from April 1957 until her death in July 1959. After a drug overdose in 1963, Waldron neither plays nor remembers the music; He gradually regained his skills, while developing the speed of his thinking. He left the United States for good in the mid-1960s, settled in Europe and continued to tour internationally until his death.
Birth nameMalcolm Earl Waldron
BornAugust 16, 1925, New York City, New York, United States
DiedDecember 2, 2002, Brussels, Belgium
GenresAvant-garde jazz, Hard bop, Modal jazz, Post-bop
Occupation(s)Musician, composer, arranger
InstrumentsPiano
Years activeEarly 1950s–2002
Associated actsGene Ammons, Billie Holiday, Steve Lacy, Jeanne Lee, Jackie McLean, Charles Mingus

About Mal Waldron

Pianist Mal Waldron was born on August 16, 1925 in New York City, New York, United States (He dies at the age of 77, on December 2, 2002).

Thelonious Monk and the hard bop and post-bop styles impacted the chord voicings and musicality of this jazz performer.

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Mal Waldron before becoming famous

Mal Waldron was born in the Zodiac sign Leo (The Lion), and 1925 is the year of the Chinese Zodiac Ox (牛).

After being drafted by the Army in 1943, he was stationed at West Point in New York. He was smack dab in the midst of the New York jazz club scene as a result of this.

Achievement of Mal Waldron

His career came to a halt in 1963 when he suffered a nervous breakdown due to a drug overdose. He got back on his feet and went on to have a successful second career.

Mal Waldron's Family, Spouse, Dating and Relationship

His parents were against his interest in jazz, so he took classical piano lessons from the age of seven until he was sixteen.

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During Jazz Singer Billie Holiday's dying years, he was her accompanist.

Billie Holiday (1915 - 1959) (Jazz Singer)
Billie Holiday (1915 - 1959)

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Mal Waldron Income & Net worth

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Latest information about Mal Waldron updated on March 13 2023.