Jazz Articles about Malachi Thompson

Malachi Thompson: Talking Horns

by Mark Corroto
September 1, 2001

The good news is trumpeter Malachi Thompson mixes multiple styles and approaches on his latest release. But that is also the bad news. Thompson packs a wealth of music into his discs. As with his earlier Delmark projects; New Standards (1993), Buddy Bolden’s Rag (1995), and Free-bop Now! (1999), Thompson’s eclecticism informs us of jazz history, but that also distracts from a singular message.

It’s not that there isn’t plenty to dig here. Guest frontline saxophonists Hamiet Bluiett and Oliver ...

Malachi Thompson: Timeline

by Derek Taylor
September 1, 2000

Delmark’s been a watering hole for AACM musicians since the latter organization’s inception. The mutually supportive relationship is such that many of these musician’s have returned to the label over the years, some sporadically, others more frequently. Case in point, Roscoe Mitchell who cut his first session for Delmark (the seminal Sound ) in 1966 and returned nearly three decades later to release a handful of new titles ( Sound Songs, Hey Donald, In Walked Buckner ). Malachi Thompson, an ...

Malachi Thompson: Freebop Now!

by Jack Bowers
January 1, 1999

Trumpeter Malachi Thompson's new Delmark release marks the 20th anniversary of his Chicago-based Free-bop Band. As two decades have passed since its inception, it would seem a proper time to pose the question, what exactly is Free-bop? If one assumes that the “free" in Free-bop denotes music that is unstructured or inharmonious, such a premise is not supported by the evidence presented here. Thompson states in his liner notes that Free-bop “takes the most exciting elements of bop and combines ...