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Jesse Thomas was an amazing blues treasure who recorded for Victor Records in 1929. He also recorded for Modern, Elko, Hollywood, Freedom, Miltone & Swing Time. Thomas returned to Shreveport, LA in...

4 trumpets, 4 trombones, bass & drums, feat. Lester Bowie and Malachi Thompson-tpt & arrangements.1. Buddy Bolden's Rag 2. World View 3. The Chaser in Brazil 4. We Bop 5. Nubian Call 6. The Chaser in...

Trumpeter Malachi Thompson applies his "freebop" approach (a melding of free jazz and bebop) to brass big band again for "Blue Jazz," the third CD from the four trumpet, four trombone with rhythm...

Hard bop is where trumpeter Thompson hangs his stylistic hat - he & the Freebop Band embrace everything from cool modes to atonal flights, jazz-funk to the traditional New Orleans sound, feat...

This 1997 release features Billy Harper, Carter Jefferson, Joe Ford, Dee Alexader, Ron Bridgewater and others. A lyrical bop player and cutting-edge free jazz musician, Malachi liked to call his...

Thompson is joined by Billy Harper, Oliver Lake & Amiri Baraka - they have their origins in N.Y. in the fall of 1978 as part of the loft jazz scene - it contains mostly new original compositions + a...

Trumpeter Malachi Thompson used the unconventional spelling, Jaz, to distinguish real jazz from "smooth jazz". This 1991 recording was one of Thompson's most exciting CDs and features Carter...

Exploring insights into the cultural connection between the Nile & the Mississippi rivers1. Elephantine Island 2. Old Man River 3. Tales of Ancient Kemet 4. Transition 5. Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing 6...

Features Malachi's combo, Freebop, w. Carter Jefferson, Joe Ford, Ron Bridgewater, Sonny Seals, 2 originals, 8 tunes total, 70 minutes.1. Joshua 2. Pinnoccio 3. Crescent 4. Resolution 5. If I Only...

W. guest artist Leon Thomas, Carter Jefferson + 1989.1. Spirit of Man 2. Back to the One 3. A Rising Daystar 4. Dhyia Malika 5. I Remember Clifford 6. Dearly Beloved 7. No More Hard Times

In the mid-1960's, the Chicago & St. Louis jazz tradition became embodied in the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) in Chicago, and the Black Artist Group (BAG) in St. Louis...

Trumpeter's ninth album on Delmark contains the roots of freebop, featuring his earliest recordings dating back to 1972; also includes never before released tracks from 1988 with Carter Jefferson,...