Mal Waldron, David Friesen

Dedication is a duo album by the pianist Mal Waldron and the bassist David Friesen, recorded in Milan on November 18, 1985 and released by Soul Note in 1988. The two had first recorded as a duo in Seattle in March 1984, for the Muse album Encounters, and in July 1985 they played a concert in Los Angeles that Soul Note issued only in 2006 as Remembering Mal. This studio session came four months later and pairs two standards with five other pieces.

The session was held at Barigozzi Studio, with Giancarlo Barigozzi as engineer and Tom Guardincerri as producer, and Art Lange wrote the liner notes. Friesen is credited on the sleeve with Oregon bass. The title track opens side one at ten minutes, followed by All God's Chillun Got Rhythm and an eight-minute It Never Entered My Mind. Side two begins with Rhythmics, the longest performance at thirteen and a half minutes, then three shorter pieces ending with Batik. The two went on to a quintet date for Soul Note, Remembering The Moment, taped live in Portland in June 1987 with Julian Priester, Jim Pepper and Eddie Moore.

This is the Soul Note LP 121 178-1, which CAM Jazz describes as a copy of the original 1988 pressing on 140 gram vinyl, found again in the label's vaults.