''The Short Form'' is an album by American jazz trumpeter

Raphe Malik Raphe Malik, born Laurence Mazel (November 1, 1948 in Cambridge, Massachusetts – March 8, 2006 in Guilford, Vermont) was an American jazz trumpeter. Career Malik studied at the University of Massachusetts (1966–70), then moved to Paris, whe ...

, which was recorded live at the Fire in the Valley Festival in 1996 and released on the

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label. He leads a quartet with tenor saxophonist

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, bassist George Langford and drummer Dennis Warren.''The Short Form''
at Eremite

Reception

In his review for

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, Thom Jurek states "This date was an evening that revealed to an enthralled audience what speaking in tongues was all about. As evidenced by ''The Short Form'', Malik should be recorded as a leader far more often than he is. It's simply stunning." ''

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'' says "Energy-music followers will love ''The Short Form'', a concert recording that pares the band back to a quartet and lets them explode." In his review for ''

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'' John Murph notes "Malik's terse tone, blurry trumpet flurries blast through an arresting set of originals that boils with eruptive intensity."Murph, Joh
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Track listing

:''All compositions by Raphe Malik'' # "Invocation: Spiel City" – 8:00 # "Ray (Thine Own)" – 10:00 # "Civilization After Coltrane" – 13:03 # "Big G" – 7:36 # "Hightail" – 4:57 # "Gem Stone" – 7:16 # "Grab Bag of Crabs on the Bayou" – 7:55

Personnel

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trumpet The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet—with the highest register in the brass family—to the bass trumpet, pitched one octave below the standar ...

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tenor sax The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor and the alto are the two most commonly used saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B (while ...

*George Langford –

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*Dennis Warren -

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Short Form 1997 live albums Raphe Malik live albums Eremite Records live albums