Mal Waldron - Candy Girl (2025) [Official Digital Download]

An electrified meeting of minds, Candy Girl is a lost 1975 session by jazz pianist Mal Waldron, recorded in Paris with core members of the mighty Lafayette Afro Rock Band, the American funk unit who had made France their home and whose deep grooves would later be mined by generations of hip-hop producers.

By 1975, Waldron was a decade into his self-imposed exile from the United States—a transformed musician who had reassembled his sound in Europe and Japan after a devastating breakdown in the early '60s. His post-1969 output had stripped jazz down to its core elements: modal intensity, locked grooves, and hypnotic repetition. Candy Girl doesn’t interrupt this trajectory—it extends it, wrapping Waldron’s minimalist mantras around the funked-up chassis of the Lafayette rhythm section.

TRACKLIST

1. Mal Waldron - Home Again
2. Mal Waldron - Red Match Box
3. Mal Waldron - Bits And Things
4. Mal Waldron - Candy Girl
5. Mal Waldron - Dedication To Brahms
6. Mal Waldron - Home Again (Alternative Version)
7. Mal Waldron - Red Match Box (Alternative Version)
8. Mal Waldron - Bits And Things (Alternative Version)
9. Mal Waldron - Dedication To Brahms (Alternative Version)



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