Rising Daystar is an album by the American jazz trumpeter Malachi Thompson, released by the Delmark label in 1999.[1][2]

Rising Daystar
Studio album by
ReleasedOctober 26, 1999
RecordedMay 3, 1998 – June 7, 1999
StudioRiverside Studio, Chicago
GenreJazz
Length64:22
LabelDelmark
DE-518
ProducerRobert G. Koester, Steve Wagner, Malachi Thompson
Malachi Thompson chronology
Freebop Now!
(1999)
Rising Daystar
(1999)
Talking Horns
(2001)

Reception

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Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic     [3]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings    [4]

AllMusic reviewer Alex Henderson stated: "When Malachi Thompson calls his music 'free bop,' it isn't empty rhetoric; he really does take a free, open-minded approach to bop, and he savors 'the tradition' without being enslaved by it. Recorded at three separate sessions in 1997, 1998, and 1999, Rising Daystar is primarily a hard bop/post-bop CD ... But while Rising Daystar is more inside than outside ... the Chicagoan isn't limited to that approach ... he detours into the avant garde and savors the pleasures of dissonant outside improvisation".[3] In JazzTimes, Tom Terrell observed: "Feeling their collective hard bopping, free jazzing, Afro-head swinging inner child, Malachi and Freebop get all the way open".[5]

Track listing

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All Compositions BY Malachi Thompson except where noted

  1. "Rising Daystar" – 8:01
  2. "Mansa" – 10:46
  3. "Busy Little Fingers" – 4:17
  4. "Nefertiti" (Wayne Shorter) – 7:52
  5. "Surrender Your Love" – 4:48
  6. "Fanfare for Trane" – 12:25
  7. "Song for Morgan" – 10:15
  8. "Circles in the Air (Dedicated to Fred Hopkins)" – 5:36

Personnel

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References

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  1. ^ Jazzlists: Delmark Records discography: 500 series accessed October 14, 2019
  2. ^ Delmark Records: album details accessed October 28, 2019
  3. ^ a b Henderson, Alex. Malachi Thompson: Rising Daystar – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved October 28, 2019.
  4. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1400. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
  5. ^ Terrell, T. JazzTimes Review accessed October 28, 2019