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, where he played with Frank Wright and members of the Art Ensemble of Chicago. After returning to Ohio, he began working with Cecil Taylor in the mid-1970s, including at Carnegie Hall and for tours of Europe. He and Taylor collaborated through much of the 1970s and 1980s. In 1976, Malik performed in a production of Adrienne Kennedy's A Rat's Mass directed by Cecil Taylor at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club in the East Village of Manhattan. Musicians Rashid Bakr, Andy Bey, Karen Borca, David S. Ware, and Jimmy Lyons also performed in the production. Taylor's production combined the original script with a chorus of orchestrated voices used as instruments.

In the 1990s, Malik recorded several albums as a leader, and played with Dennis Warren in the Full Metal Revolutionary Jazz Ensemble.

Discography

As leader

Release year	Title	Label	Notes
1992	21st Century Texts	FMP	quintet: with Glenn Spearman, Brian Nelson (saxophone), Larry Roland (bass), Dennis Warren (drums)
1994	Sirens Sweet & Slow	OutSounds	quintet: with Glenn Spearman, Brian Nelson (saxophone), Larry Roland, Jamyll Jones (bass), Dennis Warren (drums)
1997	The Short Form	Eremite	quartet: with Glenn Spearman (saxophone), George Langford (bass), Dennis Warren (drums)
1999	ConSequences	Eremite	quartet: with Sabir Mateen (sax), William Parker (bass), Denis Charles (drums)
2000	Storyline	Boxholder	trio: with Cecil McBee (bass), Cody Moffett (drums)
2001	Looking East: A Suite in Three Parts	Boxholder	quartet: with Sabir Mateen (saxophone), Larry Roland (bass), Cody Moffett (drums)
2001	Speak Easy	Le Systeme	solo trumpet
2002	Companions	Eremite	quartet: with Glenn Spearman (saxophone), William Parker (bass), Paul Murphy (drums)
2004	Sympathy	Boxholder	trio: with Joe McPhee (saxophone and trumpet), Donald Robinson (drums)
2004	Last Set: Live at the 1369 Jazz Club	Boxholder	quartet: with Frank Wright (saxophone), William Parker (bass), Syd Smart (drums); recorded in 1984

As sideman

With Jimmy Lyons

• 1983: Wee Sneezawee (Black Saint Records)

With Sabir Mateen

• 2001: Secrets of When (Bleu Regard)

With Cecil Taylor

• 1976: Dark to Themselves
• 1978: 3 Phasis
• 1978: Cecil Taylor Unit
• 1978: One Too Many Salty Swift and Not Goodbye
• 1978: Live in the Black Forest
• 1980: It Is in the Brewing Luminous

External links

• Chris Kelsey on Raphe Malik at Allmusic
• Malik's obituary at jazzhouse.org (by Todd S. Jenkins)
• Malik's page on La MaMa Archives Digital Collections