Mal Waldron, American pianist and composer (died 2002)

Mal Waldron

American jazz pianist and composer (1925–2002)

Malcolm Earl "Mal" Waldron 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 Waldron led his own bands and played for those led by Charles Mingus, Jackie…