Live at Dreher, Paris 1981 is a live album

Live album

A live album is a recording consisting of material recorded during stage performances using remote recording techniques, commonly contrasted with a studio album...

 by American jazz pianist Mal Waldron

Mal Waldron

Malcolm Earl Waldron was an American jazz and world music pianist and composer, born in New York City.Like his contemporaries, Waldron's roots lie chiefly in the hard bop and post-bop genres of the New York club scene of the 1950s; but with time, he gravitated more towards free jazz and composition...

 and soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy

Steve Lacy

Steve Lacy , born Steven Norman Lackritz in New York City, was a jazz saxophonist and composer recognized as one of the important players of soprano saxophone....

 recorded in Paris in 1981 and released by the Hathut

Hathut Records

Hathut Records is a Swiss record label specialising in jazz and contemporary classical music.Founded in 1975 by Werner X. Uehlinger to document the work of saxophonist / trumpeter Joe McPhee...

 label.
The four-CD box set combines recordings previously released on the LP's Snake Out in 1983, Herbe De L'oubli in 1986 and Let's Call This in 1986, with additional recordings from the concert series.
The recordings were also released as two double-CD sets Live at Dreher, Paris 1981: Round Midnight Vol. 1 and Live at Dreher, Paris 1981: The Peak Vol. 2.

Reception

The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 4½ stars stating "Lacy and Waldron display what so few duets in jazz history have been able to conjure: true synchronicity. This is a wonderfully gratifying set; one only wishes she or he could have been there". The review by Bill Shoemaker in JazzTimes

JazzTimes

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said "for anyone with a serious interest in either artist, Live at Dreher Paris 1981 is an essential collection. By this time in their respective developments, both artists had stripped their approaches down to the bare essentials".

Track listing

All compositions by Mal Waldron except as indicated

Disc One:

1. "Let's Call This" — 7:48
2. "'Round Midnight
   'Round Midnight (song)
   Round Midnight" is a 1944 jazz standard by pianist Thelonious Monk. Jazz artists Cootie Williams, Dizzy Gillespie, Art Pepper, and Miles Davis have further embellished the song, with songwriter Bernie Hanighen adding lyrics...
   
   " (Thelonious Monk
   Thelonious Monk
   Thelonious Sphere Monk was an American jazz pianist and composer considered "one of the giants of American music". Monk had a unique improvisational style and made numerous contributions to the standard jazz repertoire, including "Epistrophy", "'Round Midnight", "Blue Monk", "Straight, No Chaser"...
   
   ) — 10:32
3. "No Baby" (Steve Lacy) — 11:24
4. "Herb De L'oublie" (Lacy) — 11:14
5. "Snake Out" — 15:02

Disc Two:

1. "'Round Midnight" (Monk) — 13:22 Originally released on Let's Call This
2. "Deep Endeavours" — 13:10 Originally released on Let's Call This
3. "A Case Of Plus 4's" — 10:17 Originally released on Snake Out
4. "The Seagulls Of Kristiansund" — 10:23
5. "Snake Out" — 13:16 Originally released on Snake Out

Disc Three:

1. "Bone" (Lacy) — 10:45 Originally released on Let's Call This
2. "No Baby" (Lacy) — 13:25 Originally released on Snake Out
3. "Blinks" (Lacy) — 11:37 Originally released on Snake Out
4. "I Feel A Draft" (Lacy) — 10:48 Originally released on Let's Call This
5. "'Round Midnight" (Monk) — 12:37
6. "Well, You Needn't" (Monk) — 10:01
7. "Epistrophy
   Epistrophy
   "Epistrophy" is a jazz standard composed by Thelonious Monk and Kenny Clarke in 1942. It has been called "the first classic, modern jazz composition."Its 'A' section is based on a pattern of alternating chords a semitone apart....
   
   " (Monk) — 7:44

Disc Four:

1. "The Peak" — 17:11 Originally released on Let's Call This
2. "Herb De L'oubli" (Lacy) — 11:09 Originally released on Herb De L'oubli
3. "Hooray For Herbie" — 17:40 Originally released on Herb De L'oubli
4. "Let's Call This" — 6:59 Originally released on Let's Call This
5. "Epistrophy" (Monk) — 7:27 Originally released on Herb De L'oubli
6. "Well You Needn't" (Monk) — 7:54 Originally released on Let's Call This
   • Recorded at Dreher, Paris on August 10 (Disc One tracks 1 & 2), August 13 (Disc One tracks 3-5 & Disc Two track 1), August 14 (Disc Two tracks 2-5 & Disc Three) and August 15 (Disc Four), 1981