Home » Search Center » Results: Raphe Malik
Results for "Raphe Malik"
Raphe Malik Passes at 57
GUILFORD -- Laurence Mazel (Raphe Malik), 57, noted jazz musician, has died after a long illness. He was in born in Cambridge, Mass., on Nov. 1, 1948. He lived in Boston, Lawrence and Andover, Mass. During his high school years he was Northeast Regional tennis champion for New England, and studied Mandarin Chinese through a State ...
Last Set: Live at the 1369 Jazz Club
By Raphe Malik
Label: Boxholder Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: 1. Sad C 2. Companions #2 3. Chaser
Sympathy
By Raphe Malik
Label: Boxholder Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: Tewtament, Resolving a Quote, Velcoity, Space March, Hypersonic, Motivic, untitled dialogue, Call and Response, Escape Route
Raphe Malik: Last Set & Sympathy
by Clifford Allen
What is sometimes sorely missed among the current crop of players in the jazz “tradition" (and by “tradition" I mean both straight-ahead and free music) is a sense of weight. This weight, or gravity, is both sonic and metaphysical and improvised music is at a loss without it. While he was a regular member of the ...
Raphe Malik Quartet: Last Set: Live at the 1369 Jazz Club
by Trevor MacLaren
After leaving the Cecil Taylor Unit in 1979, Raphe Malik seemed to have disappeared until his first record as a leader appeared in 1989 ( 21st Century Texts ). Last Set proves that Malik was not only playing, but he was cutting some incredible chops. Taken from the last set of a two-night engagement ...
Malik, McPhee, Robinson: Sympathy
by Dan McClenaghan
Trumpeter Raphe Malik, who spent much of the '70s and '80s playing with free pianist Cecil Taylor's band, has been described as “an exuberant and rough-hewn player"; and the Taylor lineage would suggest a propensity toward the free-flying approach. But on Sympathy the sound can best be described as introspective or searching, and even—to these ears, ...
Companions
By Raphe Malik
Label: Eremite Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: 1. Lyon's Jump 2:46
2. Emblematic 0:45
3. Health Food 2:34
4. Bend 7:19
Raphe Malik: Companions
by Kurt Gottschalk
It's hard to imagine 45 years, hence that one of the things that was so controversial about Ornette Coleman's emergence was that he gave up on employing a pianist. The sax/trumpet/bass/drum quartet has become commonplace in the modern jazz world since that time (Other Dimensions in Music and Masada leap to mind as two of today's ...
Speak Easy
By Raphe Malik
Label: Le Systeme Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: Avenue D; Bell; Odds Out; Good Graces; Cruise Control; Abstract; Float School; Mystery of Human; Tone Row.
Album Showcase
Trending
Interview
Lou Marini: A Solo Career Starting At The Age Of 80
Groove Orbit
How John Coltrane Changed Rock Music: Santana
History of Jazz
John Coltrane in Detroit: A Brief History
Live Review
The Tension Is Where the Music Lives: Miles Davis at 100,...
Chats with Cats
Michael Ricci: Still Building a Home for Jazz
Radio & Podcasts
Sullivan Fortner, Jim Rotondi & Dena DeRose, Ardeshir,...
Reanimating Conversations Past
Charlie Haden: Anatomy of a Jazz Classic
VOTE!
