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Raphe Malik Quartet: Last Set: Live at the 1369 Club
by AAJ Staff
Trumpeter Raphe Malik has remained an underground figure from his early days working with Cecil Taylor and Jimmy Lyons through his first recording as a leader ( 21st Century Texts, FMP, 1989) and those that followed. He made up his own name ("raphe" means “the seam of a seed," something that he picked up out of the dictionary after having a vision under the stars in Ohio) and has never really settled down into any sort of predictable groove. His ...
read moreRaphe Malik Quartet: Looking East Suite
by John Sharpe
Ever seen a review of a gig and wished you could have been there? I read about the premiere of Raphe Malik’s Looking East Suite at the Boston ICA on the AAJ website two years ago. Happily for me and everyone else who couldn’t be there, the concert has now been released by Boxholder as a double CD, and what a performance! The concert opens at a breathless pace with ‘Zero Grade’ and hardly lets up for the next 100 ...
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