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Malachi Thompson & Africa Brass

Malachi Thompson & Africa Brass: Blue Jazz

by Jeff Stockton
October 4, 2004

Malachi Thompson's Africa Brass project embodies all the variety and complexity of his Chicago home base: the urban experience of African Americans transplanted from the rural south; the blending of blues and jazz as musicians stepped out of juke joints and onto the stages of supper clubs; the respect for tradition tempered by the desire for ...

Blue Jazz

By Malachi Thompson & Africa Brass

Label: Delmark Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: Black Metropolis Suite-Black Metropolis; the Panther; Jazz Revelations; Genesis/Rebirth???; Blues for a Saint Called Louis Suite-Po

Malachi Thompson & Africa Brass: Blue Jazz

by Rex Butters
December 1, 2003

Malachi Thompson’s eleventh recording as leader shamelessly dwells in the blues, drinking deeply from that source of inspiration. Blue Jazz keeps the free-bop band alive within the larger Africa Brass. The four trumpet/four trombone combination gives the blue swing the jukebox appeal of early ‘60s Blue Note records. Thompson’s eloquent lead on trumpet brings out the ...