HORO 19 - MAL WALDRON - HLL 101-19

Malcom Earl "Mal" Waldron was born in New York in 1926, in the sign of Leo, whose symbolism - we all know - is based on realization, rationality, honor, generosity and nobleness.
Saturn is out of sight, so no sense of death, of firmness and malediction is present.
Both the man and the musician seem to be the exemplification of a tipical Sun-influenced person. The body is swift, average tall; the forehead is broad and it gives an impression of serenity.

Giampiero Cane from the liner notes.

Mal Waldron Biography

Mal Waldron Discography

Credits:

Label: HORO
Catalog#: HLL 101-19
Format: LP
Country: Italy

Recorded in Rome 1972, April 1th

Mal Waldron (piano)


Tracklisting:

Side A

A1) Tew Nune (M. Waldron) - 4'36"
A2) Picchy's Waltz (M. Waldron) - 7'22"
A3) Breakin' Through (M. Waldron) - 6'50"

Side B

B1) Canto Ritrovato (G. Gaslini) - 5'22"
B2) Lullaby (M. Waldron) - 4'18"
B3) Appia Antica (M. Waldron) - 9'13"

JAZZ A CONFRONTO 20 - KENNY CLARKE - HLL 101-20

Kenny Clarke (born Kenneth Clarke Spearman, later aka, Liaqat Ali Salaam, on January 9, 1914 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-died January 26, 1985 in Paris, France) was a jazz drummer and an early innovator of the bebop style of drumming. As the house drummer at Minton's Playhouse in the early 1940's, he participated in the after hours jams that led to the birth of Be-Bop, which in turn lead to modern jazz. He is credited with creating the modern role of the ride cymbal as the primary timekeeper.

Before, drummers kept time on the high-hat and snare drum (”digging coal”, Clarke called it) with heavy support from the bass drum. With Clarke time was played on the cymbal and the bass and snare were used more for punctuation. This led to a much more relaxed style of drumming. From this point more and more rhythms and poly-rhythms are made possible. For this, “every drummer” Ed Thigpen said, “owes him a debt of gratitude.” Clarke was nicknamed “Klook” or “Klook-mop” for the style he innovated.

Clarke was a founder member of the Modern Jazz Quartet (as the Milt Jackson Quartet) in 1951 and also participated in many recording sessions as house drummer for Savoy Records. Connie Kay took his place in the MJQ in 1955 and from 1956 Clarke was resident in France where he regularly worked with visiting American musicians in Paris, in particular forming a working trio, known as “The Bosses”, with Bud Powell and Pierre Michelot.

Later in 1961, with Belgian pianist Francy Boland he formed a regular big band featuring leading European and ex-patriate American musicians, including among many others, Johnny Griffin and Ronnie Scott on tenor saxes. The big band, which had been the idea of Italian producer Gigi Campi, lasted for eleven years.

source AAJ

Credits:

Label: HORO
Catalog#: HLL 101-20
Format: LP
Country: Italy

Recorded at "Titania Studios", Rome 1975, March 3

Cicci Santucci (tp), Enzo Scoppa (tenor sax),
Enrico Pieranunzi (piano), Roberto Della Grotta (bass),
Kenny Clarke (drums)

Tracklisting:

Side A

A1) Close The Door - 4'19"
A2) I Am Louis Armstrong - 3'36"
A3) Big Bang - 5'35"
A4) Jay Jay - 5'26"

Side B

B1) Waiting - 6'34"
B2) New April - 3'48"
B3) Nudibranco - 3'54"
B4) Via Sistina - 3'39"

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Thanks to the advice of kingsilvertone and fslmy, I decided to republish all the records music of HORO in high quality, recorded by the original vinyl 32-bit, setting the playback speed to 320kbps.

I decided to start from the last volume published in this blog, and to date, I've re-edited, in high quality, the volumes 18, 17 and 16 of JAZZ A CONFRONTO series, but I promise you, it will reload all the records of HORO with this system.

So, if you want the highest quality of one of the best labels ever existed in jazz, you rerun the download.

Each new upload will be clearly reported and, of course, I'll continue to publish the subsequent volumes to complete this amazing discography.

JAZZ A CONFRONTO 18 - SUMMIT BIG BAND by SLIDE HAMPTON & DUSKO GOJKOVIC - HLL 101-18

Internationally conceived, the Summit Big Band includes five Americans, two Italians, one Jugoslav, one Pole, one French-man and one Englishman.
What other music you know, if not that jazz, which can break down the borders?

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Credits:

Label: HORO
Catalog#: HLL 101-18
Format: LP
Country: Italy

Recorded at "Junior Studios", Rome 1972, January 25

Benny Bailey, Dusko Gojkovic, Bob Lanese (tps),
Bob Burgess, Slide Hampton (trnes),
Gianni Basso, Sal Nistico (tenor sax),
Laszek Zadlo (soprano sax, ten sax),
Sergio Rigon (bar sax),
Vince Benedetti (p),
Patrice Caratini (bass), Peer Wyboris (drums)


Tracklisting:

Side A

A1) Elocin - 8'35"
A2) Manhattan Mood - 4'51"
A3) Feeling - 5'20"

Side B

B1) It's About Time - 5'40"
B2) Personally Ake - 10'33"

JAZZ A CONFRONTO 17 - JAC'S ANTHOLOGY - HLL 101-17

In this anthology, published by Aldo Sinesio at the middle of the the story of HORO, we find some alternative path of previous volumes, such as Johnny Griffin and Sal Nistico, one "anticipation", because this was the track of Steve Grossman, on the date which this collection was put on the market, and a curious experiment.

Three of these pieces all came out of the same session, in which Franco Ambrosetti's quartet was recording, but in this case the various components of the quartet meved into a freer pattern, breaking the structure of the group, creating small nuclei.

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Credits:

Label: HORO
Catalog#: HLL 101-17
Format: LP
Country: Italy

Recorded in Rome, 1974/1975

Tracklisting:

Side A

A1) The Pasta Parade - 8'38"
Johnny Griffin (ten sax),
Franco D'Andrea (p), Giovanni Tommaso (bass), Bruno Biriaco (drums)
1974, April 7

A2) Paravento - 2'07"
Daniel Humair (drums & vocal)
1974, April 28

A3) Mariamar - 10'10"
Sal Nistico (ten sax),
Irio De Paula (g), Enrico Pieranunzi (p), Alessio Urso (bass), Afonso Vieira (drums)
1975, February 16

Side B

B1) Untitled - 10'47"
Steve Grossman (soprano sax, ten. sax),
Irio De Paula (g), Alessio Urso (g), Afonso Vieira (drums), Nilton Castro (perc)
1974, June 4

B2) Baje - 3'19"
Jasper Van't Hof (p)
1974, April 28

B3) Ashe Of Space - 5'40"
Franco Ambrosetti (flgh), J.F. Jenny-Clark (bass)
1974, April 28

JAZZ A CONFRONTO 16 - SAL NISTICO - HLL 101-16

Sal Nistico, born Salvatore Nistico 2 April 1938 in Syracuse (New York), died 3 March 1991 in Berne, Switzerland, was a jazz tenor saxophonist associated for many years in the mid-'60s with Woody Herman's Herd.


He started playing alto sax, switching to tenor in 1956 and briefly played baritone sax. In 1965, he joined Count Basie but returned on many occasions to play with Herman. He also played with Nat Adderley, Don Ellis, Stan Tracey, Chuck Mangione and Buddy Rich.

While not a well-known public figure, he was highly respected by his fellow tenor sax players as a “musicians' musician”. Sal's solo work contrasts his big band work. The solo work is more bebop oriented, as heard on the Heavyweights recordings.

Source www.allaboutjazz.com

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Credits:

Label: HORO
Catalog#: HLL 101-16
Format: LP
Country: Italy

Recorded at “Titania’s Studio”,
Rome on 1975, February 2

Sal Nistico (tenor sax),
Irio De Paula (g),
Enrico Pieranunzi (p),
Alessio Urso (bass), Afonso Vieira (drums)


Tracklisting:

Side A
A1) Maracanà - 10'41"
A2) For You - 4'36"
A3) New April - 6'19"

Side B
B1) Segundo - 8'48"
B2) Bleu Marine - 6'28"
B3) Garotinho - 5'51"

Note:
the stickers on the label is of the Radio télévision belge de la communauté française, but I don't have info about Don Mercier (is an author, is a DJ?)

JAZZ A CONFRONTO 15 - JAC'S GROUP featuring CHARLIE MARIANO - HLL 101-15

After an excellent concert at the Music Inn in Rome, Aldo Sinesio asked Mariano & Co. to record an album for his label.
The result has met his expectations, I hope it's the same for your ...

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Credits:

Label: HORO
Catalog#: HLL 101-15
Format: LP
Country: Italy

Recorded at “Titania’s Studio”,
Rome on 1975, January 18

Charlie Mariano (alto sax, soprano sax, fl), Philip Catherine (g), Jasper Van't Hof (yamaha organ), Jean-François Jenny-Clark (bass), Aldo Romano (drums)


Tracklisting:

Side A

A1) Look Up - 11'04"
A2) I Felt Obliged - 4'02"
A3) Zirkus - 4'23"

Side B
B1) 47 Seconds - 5'44"
B2) Eighteen Bar Blues - 6'23"
B3) Duo Maximum - 3'51"
B4) Unexpected - 2'24"