The Git Go – Live at the Village Vanguard

1987 live album by Mal Waldron

The Git Go - Live at the Village Vanguard

Live album by

Mal Waldron

Released| 1987
Recorded| September 16, 1986
Genre| Jazz
Length| 45:50
Label| Soul Note
Producer| Giovanni Bonandrini
Mal Waldron chronology
| Left Alone '86
(1986)  | The Git Go - Live at the Village Vanguard
(1987)  | The Seagulls of Kristiansund
(1986)

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The Git Go - Live at the Village Vanguard is a live album by jazz pianist Mal Waldron recorded at the Village Vanguard and released on the Italian Soul Note label in 1987.[1]

## Reception[edit]

The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 4 stars stating "this advanced set has the feel of a high-quality jam session".[2]

Professional ratingsReview scores

Source| Rating
Allmusic| [2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings| [3]

## Track listing[edit]

All compositions by Mal Waldron

1. "Status Seeking" -- 20:19
2. "The Git Go" -- 25:31

* Recorded at the Village Vanguard in New York City on September 16, 1986

## Personnel[edit]

* Mal Waldron -- piano
* Woody Shaw -- trumpet
* Charlie Rouse -- tenor saxophone, flute
* Reggie Workman -- bass
* Ed Blackwell -- drums

## References[edit]

1. ^ Mal Waldron discography accessed March 8, 2011
2. ^ a b Yanow, S. Allmusic Review accessed March 8, 2011
3. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1455\. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.

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Mal Waldron

Year(s) indicated are for the recording(s), not first release.

leader

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)

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* e

Woody Shaw

Years given are for the recording(s), not first release.

leader

co-leader|

* In the Beginning (1965)
* Blackstone Legacy (1970)
* Song of Songs (1972)
* The Moontrane (1974)
* San Francisco Express – Getting It Together (1975)
* Love Dance (1975)
* Little Red's Fantasy (1976)
* Woody Plays Woody (1976–77)
* The Woody Shaw Concert Ensemble at the Berliner Jazztage (1976)
* Rosewood (1977)
* The Iron Men (with Anthony Braxton, 1977)
* Stepping Stones: Live at the Village Vanguard (1978)
* Woody III (1978–79)
* For Sure! (1979)
* United (1981)
* Lotus Flower (1982)
* Master of the Art (1982)
* Night Music (1982)
* Setting Standards (1983)
* The Time Is Right (1983)
* Double Take (and Freddie Hubbard, 1985)
* Woody Shaw with the Tone Jansa Quartet (1985)
* Dr. Chi (1986)
* Bemsha Swing (1986)
* Solid (1986)
* Imagination (1987)
* In My Own Sweet Way (1987)
* The Eternal Triangle (with Freddie Hubbard, 1987)

With
others|

* Home! (Gary Bartz, 1969)
* Coral Keys (Walter Bishop Jr., 1971)
* Child's Dance (Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, 1972)
* Buhaina (Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, 1973)
* Anthenagin (Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, 1973)
* The Free Slave (Roy Brooks, 1970)
* Duet in Detroit (Roy Brooks, 1983)
* The Almoravid (Joe Chambers, 1971)
* Tones for Joan's Bones (Chick Corea, 1966)
* The Complete "Is" Sessions (Chick Corea, 1969)
* Brilliant Circles (Stanley Cowell, 1969)
* Conversations (Eric Dolphy, 1963)
* Iron Man (Eric Dolphy, 1963)
* Tex Book Tenor/Back from the Gig (Booker Ervin, 1968)
* Ichi-Ban (Louis Hayes and Junior Cook, 1976)
* The Real Thing (Louis Hayes, 1977)
* If You're Not Part of the Solution, You're Part of the Problem (Joe Henderson, 1970)
* Joe Henderson Quintet at the Lighthouse (1970)
* Grass Roots (Andrew Hill, 1968)
* Lift Every Voice (Andrew Hill, 1969–70)
* Passing Ships (Andrew Hill, 1969)
* Bobby Hutcherson Live at Montreux (1973)
* Cirrus (Bobby Hutcherson, 1974)
* Bridge into the New Age (Azar Lawrence, 1974)
* 'Bout Soul (Jackie McLean, 1967)
* Demon's Dance (Jackie McLean, 1967)
* Reach Out! (Hank Mobley, 1968)
* Thinking of Home (Hank Mobley, 1970)
* Deaf Dumb Blind (Summun Bukmun Umyun) (Pharoah Sanders, 1970)
* The Cape Verdean Blues (Horace Silver, 1965)
* The Jody Grind (Horace Silver, 1966)
* Natural Soul (Buddy Terry, 1967)
* Pure Dynamite (Buddy Terry, 1972)
* Expansions (McCoy Tyner, 1968)
* The Git Go – Live at the Village Vanguard (Mal Waldron, 1986)
* The Seagulls of Kristiansund (Mal Waldron, 1986)
* Natural Essence (Tyrone Washington, 1967)
* Unity (Larry Young, 1965)
* Zawinul (Joe Zawinul, 1970)

Box-sets|

* Woody Shaw: The Complete Columbia Albums Collection (Columbia, 1978–81 [2011])
* Woody Shaw: The Complete Muse Sessions (Mosaic, 1965–87 [2013])

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