Title: Left Alone Revisited Artist: Shepp, Archie / Waldron, Mal Label: Enja Records Product Type: VINYL LP UPC: 767522914115 Genre: Jazz Release Date: 2025-12-12 Number of Discs: 1
"Left Alone" is the legendary theme that Mal Waldron composed for Billie Holiday, for whom he was the last pianist. With Archie Shepp, another admirer of the singer and, like him, a great lover of duets, Waldron revisits some of the tunes associated with this unique voice. Modesty and emotion are present, and while the shadow of the great Billie hovers over this session, it is not the painful and tortured image that we often associate with her, but a benevolent figure who communicates to the saxophonist and the pianist an expressive force, a sweetness and a fullness of sound that go straight to the heart, and make a place for themselves there for a long time, right next to our most intimate emotions. Remarkable.
Tracks: 1.1 Easy Living 1.2 Nice Work If You Can Get It 1.3 Everything Happen to Me 1.4 Left Alone 1.5 When Your Lover has Gone 1.6 Blues for 52nd Street 1.7 Porgy 1.8 Lady Sings the Blues 1.9 Left Alone (Spoken lyrics)
