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Malachi Thompson

Malachi Thompson is a composer, band leader, trumpet soloist, artist, teacher and arts activist. Born in Princeton, Kentucky on August 21, 1949, Thompson's jazz roots are on Chicago's South Side. In 1968, he joined the influential Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) playing the music of Henry Threadgill and Richard Muhal Abrams. He also became a member of Dr. M.L. King's Operation Breadbasket Orchestra, the musical arm of SCLC in 1968, working for civil rights for African Americans. In 1974, after completing work for a degree in Music Composition, Thompson was encouraged to move to NYC by jazz legend Art Blakey

George Freeman/Chico Freeman: All In The Family

By DAN BILAWSKY

There are few things more quintessentially “Chicago" in jazz than the Freeman family. Tenor titan Von Freeman ruled the roost in The Windy City decade after decade until his death in 2012; his brother, George Freeman, played with everybody from saxophonist Charlie Parker to organist Shirley Scott; his other brother, the late Eldridge “Bruz" Freeman, was ...

Ari Brown: Groove Awakening

By ANGELO LEONARDI

Erede della grande tradizione sassofonistica di Chicago, il settantenne Ari Brown pubblica il suo quarto album da leader confermando gli aspetti chiave del suo stile: timbro magniloquente e ricco di sfumature, fraseggio fluente, marcato senso del blues, viva energia con cui sostiene lunghi e rapsodici assoli. Nel suo strumento si rinnova lo spirito ecumenico, ...

Harrison Bankhead Quartet: Velvet Blue

By MARK CORROTO

Harrison Bankhead's time has come. The Advancement of Creative Music (AACM) is on a roll with the release of Velvet Blue. For decades, the bassist has been the bedrock upon which great Chicago jazz has been built. He was the foundation for legendary players like Fred Anderson, Von Freeman, Roscoe Mitchell, Muhal Richard Abrams, and Malachi ...

Oliver Lake: Makin' It

By HRAYR ATTARIAN

Changing a few elements of a well known musical format may be all that is needed to create a new and fresh sound. Makin' It, Oliver Lake has taken the old saxophone organ trio popularized in the 1950s by the likes of Ike Quebec and made it into a new vehicle for 21st ...

Blue Jazz

By MALACHI THOMPSON

Label: Delmark Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: 1 Black Metropolis 9:12 2 The Panther 6:50 3 Jaaz Revelations 5:35 4 Genesis/Rebirth 10:39 5 Po' Little Louie 3:43 6 Get on the Train 4:14 7 Blues for a Saint Called Louis 5:50 8 Blue Jazz 8:30 9 Footprints 9:19 10 Mud Hole 4:31

Malachi Thompson: The Evolution of Jazz and the Survival of Our Democratic Society

By AAJ STAFF

By Malachi Thompson I've written about jazz as a model for American democracy before, but only in passing. However, in light of voting rights issues that arose during the 2000 presidential election, the events surrounding the 9/11 attacks and what's most important - our government's response to those events - it dawned upon me that “Now's ...

Malachi Thompson & Africa Brass: Blue Jazz

By JEFF STOCKTON

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

Label: Delmark Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: Black Metropolis/ The Panther/ Jaaz Revelations/ Genesis/Rebirth/ Po

Malachi Thompson: Blue Jazz

By DEREK TAYLOR

As the eleventh Delmark album by Thompson and his third featuring the expanded Africa Brass horn section schematic, this disc suggests that the decades-deep relationship shared by the trumpeter and his label is in no danger of flagging. Regrettably, it also continues the track record of less than stellar musical results that has hounded the leader ...