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

Title	Label	Year released	Notes
21st Century Texts	FMP	1992	quintet: with Glenn Spearman, Brian Nelson (saxophone), Larry Roland (bass), Dennis Warren (drums); live recorded in 1991
Sirens Sweet & Slow	OutSounds	1994	quintet: with Glenn Spearman, Brian Nelson (saxophone), Larry Roland, Jamyll Jones (bass), Dennis Warren (drums); recorded in 1991
The Short Form	Eremite	1997	quartet: with Glenn Spearman (saxophone), George Langford (bass), Dennis Warren (drums); live recorded in 1996
ConSequences	Eremite	1999	quartet: with Sabir Mateen (sax), William Parker (bass), Denis Charles (drums)
Storyline	Boxholder	2000	trio: with Cecil McBee (bass), Cody Moffett (drums)
Looking East: A Suite in Three Parts	Boxholder	2001	quartet: with Sabir Mateen (saxophone), Larry Roland (bass), Cody Moffett (drums)
Speak Easy	Le Systeme	2001	solo trumpet
Companions	Eremite	2002	quartet: with Glenn Spearman (saxophone), William Parker (bass), Paul Murphy (drums)
Sympathy	Boxholder	2004	trio: with Joe McPhee (saxophone and trumpet), Donald Robinson (drums)
Last Set: Live at the 1369 Jazz Club	Boxholder	2004	quartet: with Frank Wright (saxophone), William Parker (bass), Syd Smart (drums); recorded in 1984

As sideman

With Jimmy Lyons

• Wee Sneezawee (Black Saint, 1983)
• The Box Set (Ayler, 2003)

With Sabir Mateen

• Secrets of When (Bleu Regard, 2001)

With Alan Silva

• Alan Silva & the Sound Visions Orchestra (Eremite, 2001) – live recorded in 1999

With Glenn Spearman

• Free Worlds (Black Saint, 2000)

With Cecil Taylor

• 1976: Dark to Themselves (Enja, 1977)
• 1978: Cecil Taylor Unit (New World, 1978)
• 1978: 3 Phasis (New World, 1978)
• 1978: Live in the Black Forest (MPS, 1978) – live
• 1978: One Too Many Salty Swift and Not Goodbye (Hat Hut, 1980) – live
• 1980: It Is in the Brewing Luminous (Hat Hut, 1981) – live

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