.Abstract Rhythm in Time DigitalART With eremite records artists audio community The Short Form by Raphe Malik by Alan Silva

Trumpeter Raphe Malik is a distinguished if underappreciated master of his instrument and the free jazz movement. For this recording date, a concert at the Fire in the Valley Festival in 1996, Malik assembled a band of giants in tenor savant Glenn Spearman, drummer Dennis Warren, and bassist George Langford. Malik and Spearman, having worked in the Cecil Taylor unit at different times, have like-minded approaches to composition, and are therefore a perfect match. Both prefer long, loping lines that eventually give way to extended fiery improvisation in which all instruments are used to find a common center and play out from it. On "Invocation: Spiel City," which opens the album, melodies appear in three different sections in the piece, each one vastly different harmonically from the preceding one. On "Ray (Thine Own)," Malik and Spearman find an angular melodic invention that soars over the rhythm section that is playing triple time. They work in and through each other as the lines becomes shorter until they disappear into Spearman's modal solo. He sounds like Dolphy on India, though he's playing tenor, cutting swathes across Malik's trumpet, carrying a melody, Eastern in color and tone, and eventually turning his intervallic modality into a screaming, screeching fit of passion. Malik drops out all together when this... more credits released April 25, 2018 Malik: trumpet George Langford: bass Glenn Spearman: tenor saxophone Dennis Warren: drums all compositions Raphe Malik, rmalik music, ascap 27 July 1996, Fire In The Valley Festival, Bezanson Recital Hall, UMASS Amherst producer: Michael Ehlers engineer: Norman Blain photography: Charles Gross liner notes: Byron Coley

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