''Rising Daystar'' is an album by the American jazz trumpeter
Malachi Thompson
Malachi Richard Thompson (August 21, 1949, in Princeton, Kentucky — July 16, 2006), was an American avant-garde jazz trumpet player. In addition to his own work as a bandleader, Thompson was known for his work in the brass ensemble led by fellow ...
, released by the
Delmark label in 1999.
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accessed October 14, 2019
Reception
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reviewer Alex Henderson stated: "When Malachi Thompson calls his music 'free bop,' it isn't empty rhetoric; he really does take a free, open-minded approach to bop, and he savors 'the tradition' without being enslaved by it. Recorded at three separate sessions in 1997, 1998, and 1999, ''Rising Daystar'' is primarily a hard bop/post-bop CD ... But while ''Rising Daystar'' is more inside than outside ... the Chicagoan isn't limited to that approach ... he detours into the avant garde and savors the pleasures of dissonant outside improvisation".
In ''
JazzTimes
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Coverage
After a decade ...
'', Tom Terrell observed: "Feeling their collective hard bopping, free jazzing, Afro-head swinging inner child, Malachi and Freebop get all the way open".
[Terrell, T]
JazzTimes Review
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Track listing
All Compositions BY Malachi Thompson except where noted
# "Rising Daystar" – 8:01
# "Mansa" – 10:46
# "Busy Little Fingers" – 4:17
# "Nefertiti" (
Wayne Shorter
Wayne Shorter (August 25, 1933 – March 2, 2023) was an American jazz saxophonist, composer and bandleader. Shorter came to mainstream prominence in 1959 upon joining Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, for whom he eventually became the primary comp ...
) – 7:52
# "Surrender Your Love" – 4:48
# "Fanfare for Trane" – 12:25
# "Song for Morgan" – 10:15
# "Circles in the Air (Dedicated to Fred Hopkins)" – 5:36
Personnel
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Malachi Thompson
Malachi Richard Thompson (August 21, 1949, in Princeton, Kentucky — July 16, 2006), was an American avant-garde jazz trumpet player. In addition to his own work as a bandleader, Thompson was known for his work in the brass ensemble led by fellow ...
– trumpet
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Gary Bartz
Gary Bartz (born September 26, 1940) is an American jazz saxophonist. He has won two Grammy Awards.
Biography
Bartz was first exposed to jazz as the son of the owners of a jazz nightclub in Baltimore. In 1958 he left Baltimore to study at the J ...
– alto saxophone, soprano saxophone (tracks 1-7)
*Sonny Seals – tenor saxophone (track 5)
*Kirk Brown – piano (tracks 1-7)
*
James Cammack (track 5),
Harrison Bankhead
Harrison Napoleon Bankhead III (March 1, 1955 – April 5, 2023) was an American jazz double-bassist.
Life and career
Bankhead became associated with the Chicago jazz scene in the early-1980s. Early in his career, he performed with Fred Ander ...
(tracks 1 & 3-5),
Fred Hopkins (track 8), John Whitfield (tracks 2, 6 & 7) – bass
*Nasar Abedey (tracks 1, 3 & 4),
Dana Hall (tracks 5 & 8) – drums
*Tony Carpenter – percussion (tracks 2 & 5-7)
*
Dee Alexander
Deleatrice "Dee" Alexander is an American jazz singer. She is a member of the AACM and appeared at the Newport Jazz Festival in 2013.
Alexander is the host of ''Sunday Jazz with Dee Alexander'', a radio show on WDCB and the WFMT Radio Network.
...
– vocals (track 5)
References
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Delmark Records albums
1999 albums
Malachi Thompson albums
Albums produced by Bob Koester