The Super Quartet Live at Sweet Basil

The Super Quartet Live at Sweet Basil
The Super Quartet Live at Sweet Basil
Live album by Mal Waldron & Steve Lacy
Released	1987
Recorded	August 28 & 29, 1987
Genre	Jazz
Length	45:55
Label	Paddle Wheel
Producer	Shigeyuki Kawashima
Mal Waldron chronology
Steve Lacy chronology

The Super Quartet Live at Sweet Basil is a live album by jazz pianist Mal Waldron featuring soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy recorded at Sweet Basil in New York City in 1987 and released on the Japanese Paddle Wheel label.^[1]

Reception

The Allmusic review by Henry M. Shteamer awarded the album 4 stars stating " Live at Sweet Basil is highly recommended as an introduction to both Waldron and Lacy, as these performances reveal the quirks of each of their styles in a peppy, yet very profound setting".^[2]

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[2]

Track listing

All compositions by Mal Waldron except as indicated

"What It Is" — 12:19
"Evidence" (Thelonious Monk) — 10:52
"Snake Out" — 15:21
"Let's Call This" (Monk) — 7:23

Recorded at Sweet Basil in New York City on August 28 & 29, 1987

Personnel

References

↑ Mal Waldron discography accessed March 9, 2011
1 2 Shteamer, H. M. Allmusic Review accessed March 9, 2011

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[Allmusic-2] 1 2 Shteamer, H. M. Allmusic Review accessed March 9, 2011

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Mal Waldron
Year(s) indicated are for the recording(s), not first release.
As leader or co-leader	Mal-1 (1956) Mal/2 (1957) The Dealers (1957) Mal/3: Sounds (1958) Just Wailin' (1958) Mal/4: Trio (1958) Left Alone (1959) Impressions (1959) The Quest (1961) Sweet Love, Bitter (1967) Ursula (1969) Free at Last (1969) Tokyo Bound (1970) Tokyo Reverie (1970) Blood and Guts (1970) Spanish Bitch (1970 The Opening (1970) Mal: Live 4 to 1 (1970) The Call (1971) First Encounter (1971) Number Nineteen (1971) Black Glory (1971) Mal Waldron Plays the Blues (1971) Signals (1971) Journey Without End (1971) Blues for Lady Day (1972) A Little Bit of Miles (1972) Jazz a Confronto 19 (1972) A Touch of the Blues (1972) Mal Waldron on Steinway (1972) Mal Waldron with the Steve Lacy Quintet (1972) The Whirling Dervish (1972) Meditations (1972) Up Popped the Devil (1973) Hard Talk (1974) Moods (1977) Mingus Lives (1979) Mal 81 (1981) Live at Dreher, Paris 1981 (1981) What It Is (1981) One Entrance, Many Exits (1982) In Retrospect (1982) Breaking New Ground (1983) Mal Waldron Plays Eric Satie (1983) You and the Night and the Music (1983) Encounters (1984) Dedication (1985) Sempre Amore (1986) Left Alone '86 (1986) Update (1986) The Git Go – Live at the Village Vanguard (1986) The Seagulls of Kristiansund (1986) Our Colline's a Treasure (1987) Remembering the Moment (1987) The Super Quartet Live at Sweet Basil (1987) Mal, Dance and Soul (1987) Evidence (1988) Art of the Duo (1988) No More Tears (For Lady Day) (1988) Crowd Scene (1989) Where Are You? (1989) Quadrologue at Utopia (1989) More Git' Go at Utopia (1989) Spring in Prague (1990) Hot House (1990) I Remember Thelonious (1992) My Dear Family (1993) Waldron-Haslam (1994) After Hours (1994) Communiqué (1994) Mal, Verve, Black & Blue (1994) Two New (1995) Silence (with David Murray, 2001)
With Gene Ammons	Jammin' with Gene (1956) Funky (1957) Jammin' in Hi Fi with Gene Ammons (1957) The Big Sound (1958) Groove Blues (1958) Velvet Soul (1962) Angel Eyes (1962) Sock! (1962)
With Jackie McLean	4, 5 and 6 (1956) Jackie's Pal (1956) Jackie McLean & Co. (1957) Makin' the Changes (1957) A Long Drink of the Blues (1957) Strange Blues (1957) McLean's Scene (1957)
With Charles Mingus	Jazz Composers Workshop (1954) Mingus at the Bohemia (1955) The Charles Mingus Quintet & Max Roach (1955) Pithecanthropus Erectus (1956) Blues & Roots (1959)
With the Prestige All Stars	Baritones and French Horns (aka, Dakar, 1957) Four Altos (1957) Interplay for 2 Trumpets and 2 Tenors (1957) The Prestige Jazz Quartet (1957) Wheelin' & Dealin' (1957)
With others	All Night Long (Kenny Burrell, 1956) Earthy (Kenny Burrell, 1957) 2 Guitars (Kenny Burrell & Jimmy Raney, 1957) Where? (Ron Carter, 1961) The Teddy Charles Tentet (1956) Coolin' (Teddy Charles, 1957) Cattin' with Coltrane and Quinichette (John Coltrane & Paul Quinichette, 1957) Coltrane (1957) Dakar (John Coltrane, Pepper Adams & Cecil Payne, 1957) At the Five Spot (Eric Dolphy, both volumes, 1961) Tuba Sounds (Ray Draper, 1957) Hornful of Soul (aka, Catwalk, Bennie Green, 1960) Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday at Newport (1957) Lady in Satin (Billie Holiday, 1958) So Warm (Etta Jones, 1961) After Hours (Thad Jones, 1957) Olio (Thad Jones, 1957) Reflections: Steve Lacy Plays Thelonious Monk (1958) Straight Ahead (Abbey Lincoln, 1961) Teo (Teo Macero, 1957) On the Sunny Side (Paul Quinichette, 1957) Percussion Bitter Sweet (Max Roach, 1961) It's Time (Max Roach, 1962) Speak, Brother, Speak! (Max Roach, 1962) For Lady (Webster Young, 1957)

Steve Lacy
Year(s) indicated are for the recording(s), not first release.
Studio albums	Soprano Sax (1957) Reflections (1958) The Straight Horn of Steve Lacy (1960) Evidence (1961) Disposability (1965) Sortie (1966) Moon (1969) Epistrophy (1969) Journey Without End (1971) Mal Waldron with the Steve Lacy Quintet (1972) Axieme (1975) Trickles (1976) One-Upmanship (1977) Troubles (1979) Songs (1981) Ballets (1981) The Flame (1982) Only Monk (1985) Sempre Amore (1986) One Fell Swoop (1986) The Gleam (1986) Momentum (1987) The Window (1987) Paris Blues (1987) The Door (1988) More Monk (1989) Anthem (1989) Hot House (1990) Remains (1991) Revenue (1993) Vespers (1993) Communiqué (1994) Monk's Dream (1999)
Live albums	The Forest and the Zoo (1967) Hard Talk (1974) Clinkers (1977) Stamps (1977/78) The Way (1979) Capers (1979) Ballets (1980) Live at Dreher, Paris 1981 (1981) Prospectus (1982) Blinks (1983) Morning Joy (1986) Flim-Flam (1986) The Super Quartet Live at Sweet Basil (1987) Itinerary (1990) Live at Sweet Basil (1991) Spirit of Mingus (1991) Clangs (1992) I Remember Thelonious (1992) We See (1992) Three Blokes (1992) Let's Call This... Esteem (1993) 5 x Monk 5 x Lacy (1997) The Cry (1998)
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