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)

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

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 ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	^[3]

Track listing

All compositions by Mal Waldron

"Status Seeking" — 20:19
"The Git Go" — 25:31

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

Personnel

References

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

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)

v t e Woody Shaw
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release.
As leader or 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])