Mal Waldron

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 McLean, John Coltrane, and Eric Dolphy, among others. During Waldron's period as house pianist for Prestige Records in the late 1950s, he appeared on dozens of albums and composed for many of them, including writing his most famous song, "Soul Eyes", for Coltrane. Waldron was often an accompanist for vocalists, and was Billie Holiday's regular accompanist from April 1957 until her death in July 1959.

16 August 1925

Born on the same birth date (16 August 1925): Willie Jones (third baseman)

Born on the same birth day (16 August): Aloísio (footballer, born 1963) • Amos Alonzo Stagg • Carol Moseley Braun • Christina of Lorraine • Eydie Gormé • James "J.T." Taylor • Jean de La Bruyère • Mark Coyne (rugby league) • Martin Hawke, 7th Baron Hawke • Paul Callaway • Philippa, 5th Countess of Ulster • Reginald VelJohnson • Taika Waititi • Ted Drake • Ulrika Jonsson • Yevstigney Fomin

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