Raphe Malik
Raphe Malik, born Laurence Mazel was an American jazz trumpeter.Career
Malik studied at the University of Massachusetts, 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 .Discography
As leader
As sideman
With Jimmy Lyons
With Sabir Mateen
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
