Blue Jazz
Released: Oct 21, 2003
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Released: Oct 21, 2003
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Trumpeter, composer, arranger, and bandleader Malachi Thompson has outdone himself with Blue Jazz. Being the fourth Africa Brass date, Thompson and his notion of reinventing the manner in which a...
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Talking Horns
Released: Aug 14, 2001
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Released: Aug 14, 2001
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Malachi Thompson has little patience with dogmatists who claim that a jazz musician has to live in New York to be legitimate. The veteran trumpeter has been around the Chicago jazz scene all his...
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Rising Daystar
Released: Oct 26, 1999
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Released: Oct 26, 1999
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When Malachi Thompson calls his music "free bop," it isn't empty rhetoric; he really does take a free, open-minded approach to bop, and he savors "the tradition" without being enslaved by it....
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47th Street
Released: Apr 20, 1993
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Released: Apr 20, 1993
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Thompson's terrific ode to a unique time and place in African-American history is filled with exciting musical ideas while also remaining accessible. Of particular note is the jumping "Some Freebop...
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New Standards
Released: Apr 20, 1993
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Released: Apr 20, 1993
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A very nice disc from Thompson and his Freebop group. New Standards takes on a nice variety of material, from "If I Only Had a Brain" to a couple of pieces by Thompson himself, including a drastic...
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Lift Every Voice
Released: Aug 24, 1992
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Released: Aug 24, 1992
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Trumpeter Malachi Thompson merges hard bop, free, African rhythms, and gospel stylings on this release. Lift Every Voice is reminiscent of what drummer Max Roach did with his regular band in...
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The Jaz Life
Released: Jun 30, 1991
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Released: Jun 30, 1991
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Trumpeter Thompson's second CD for Delmark has the leader surrounding himself with powerful sidemen and tributes to heroes, while emphasizing that the "jaz" life (one z purposefully left off) is a...
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Timeline
Released: 2000
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Released: 2000
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This compilation gathers early and unreleased tracks from between 1972 and 1982 by the excellent trumpeter. But rather than being a hodgepodge of toss-offs, it is a strong portrait of a stellar...
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Freebop Now!
Released: 1998
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Released: 1998
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Freebop Now! is designed both as a manifesto for Malachi Thompson's aesthetic principles and a 20th anniversary celebration of his Freebop Band concept. But it's a rather disjointed disc jamming...
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The Seventh Son
Released: May 1972
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Released: May 1972
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Trumpeter Malachi Thompson combines some of the innovations of the avant-garde along with dated electronics on this erratic but interesting LP. Thompson gets in a few good solos although most of...
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