Mala Waldron
Mala Waldron (born May 30, 1958 in New York City ) is an American jazz and R & B musician ( keyboards , vocals , composition ).
Live and act
Waldron, who comes from a musical family (her father is the pianist Mal Waldron , her maternal grandmother was a pianist from the Caribbean) who introduced her to the calypso at a young age . She started taking piano lessons at the age of seven. When she was 15, she performed publicly with a local R&B band, Liquid Pleasure , with which she received a recording deal with RCA Records (Midland International). She then graduated from the State University of New York at Old Westbury, where she studied jazz piano , singing and composition with Makanda Ken McIntyre , Richard Harper , Warren Smith and Amina Claudine Myers up to a bachelor's degree.
In the course of her further career she performed in Japan, France, Italy, Belgium, Italy, Belarus and Russia. Waldron submitted several albums under his own name, in 1996 Lullabye , a tribute album to her godmother Billie Holiday . The album He's My Father (Tokuma 1996) was created in Japan with her father . The album Always There was one of the TOP 10 CDs of 2006 at JazzUSA. Their current album Deep Resonance (Soulful Sound 2016) received good reviews. In addition to her own groups, she played with ArushA , the Jim Cammack Trio and other bands. She can also be heard on albums by Jabbo Ware and Mimi Jones .
Web links
- Web presence
- Portrait ( All About Jazz )
- Interview (Jake Feinberg Show)
- Mala Waldron at Discogs (English)
- Mala Waldron at Allmusic (English)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Waldron, Mala |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Waldron Henderson, Mala |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz and R&B musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 30, 1958 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |