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Michael Malis

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Detroit Jazz Festival 2023: A Celebration of Home

Detroit Jazz Festival 2023: A Celebration of Home

The 2023 Detroit Jazz Festival is almost upon us, taking place in its annual Labor Day weekend slot on the yearly jazz festival calendar. The largest free jazz festival in the world brings the music to the people of Detroit, and the world, on September 1-4 in downtown Detroit and in Hart Plaza along the Detroit ...

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From Darkness We Awaken

Label: Made Now Music
Released: 2022
Track listing: Ceremoniously, Like a Dance (1A-1C); Ceremoniously, Like a Dance (2A); Ceremoniously, Like a Dance (2B-3A); Ceremoniously, Like a Dance (3B-4A); Ceremoniously, Like a Dance (4B- 5A); Ceremoniously, Like a Dance (5B-6D); Ceremoniously, Like a Dance (7A-8H); Ceremoniously, Like a Dance (9A-9J); With a Quiet Confidence (10A-12B); With a Quiet Confidence (13A-13B); Returning (14A-14D).

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Article: Album Review

Michael Malis with Virago: From Darkness We Awaken

Read "From Darkness We Awaken" reviewed by Troy Dostert


A ubiquitous presence in the Detroit improvised music community since the early 2010s, pianist Michael Malis has also become something of a sage in charting the emotional landscape of the Covid era. His 2020 release, Dualisms, presented a series of impressive duets which outlined the tensions between resilience and despondency. Now he has teamed up with ...

Album

Dualisms

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2020
Track listing: Five Card Draw; We Shake With Grief; We Shake With Joy; We’ve Got to Find a Way.

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Article: Album Review

Michael Malis: Dualisms

Read "Dualisms" reviewed by Troy Dostert


Detroit-based pianist Michael Malis has long been a part of his troubled city's fabled resurgence, and that legacy puts him in an ideal position to address the emotional polarities intrinsic to 2020. That unique mixture of despair and hope, anger and resilience, grief and joy, that so many have experienced in whipsaw fashion, seems ideally suited ...

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Article: Live Review

Balance with Gerald Cleaver and Bill Harris at the Detroit Public Library

Read "Balance with Gerald Cleaver and Bill Harris at the Detroit Public Library" reviewed by Troy Dostert


Balance with Gerald Cleaver and Bill Harris Detroit Public Library Detroit, MIApril 7, 2019 Detroit-based jazz fans have become well-acquainted with pianist Michael Malis and saxophonist Marcus Elliot, both of whom are fixtures among the up-and-coming generation of musicians in the city, playing in all kinds of configurations and in wide-ranging, ...

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Article: Live Review

Edgefest 2017: Give the Drummers Some, Part 1-2

Read "Edgefest 2017: Give the Drummers Some, Part 1-2" reviewed by Troy Dostert


Part 1 | Part 2 Edgefest Ann Arbor, MI October 18-19, 2017 When mid-October rolls around, many fans of avant-garde jazz and creative music prepare to converge on Ann Arbor, Michigan for their annual pilgrimage to the Kerrytown Concert House, home of the Edgefest festival. Now in its ...


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