Jazz Articles about Raphe Malik

Raphe Malik: ConSequences

by John Sharpe
February 1, 2000

From the first notes from William Parker’s gut churning bass you know you are in for a treat. Raphe Malik assembled an all star band for the 1997 Fire In The Valley Festival and we are fortunate it was well-recorded for posterity. The whole disc constitutes a superb manifesto of state of the art jazz at the end of the Millennium. Malik’s deceptively simple themes, supported on a loose and limber rhythmic cushion by Parker and the greatly missed Denis ...