Rising Daystar

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 Malachi Thompson
Released	October 26, 1999
Recorded	May 3, 1998 - June 7, 1999
Studio	Riverside Studio, Chicago
Genre	Jazz
Length	64:22
Label	Delmark DE-518
Producer	Robert G. Koester, Steve Wagner, Malachi Thompson
Malachi Thompson chronology
Freebop Now! (1999) Rising Daystar (1999) Talking Horns (2001)

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[3]

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".[4]

Track listing

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

• Malachi Thompson – trumpet
• Gary Bartz – alto saxophone, soprano saxophone (tracks 1-7)
• Sonny Seals – tenor saxophone (track 5)
• Kirk Brown – piano (tracks 1-7)
• James Cammack (track 5), Harrison Bankhead (tracks 1 & 3-5), Fred Hopkins (track 8), John Whitfield (tracks 2, 6 & 7) – bass
• Nasar Abedey (tracks 1, 3 & 4), Dana Hall (tracks 5 & 8) – drums
• Tony Carpenter – percussion (tracks 2 & 5-7)
• Dee Alexander – vocals (track 5)

References

1. Jazzlists: Delmark Records discography: 500 series accessed October 14, 2019
2. Delmark Records: album details accessed October 28, 2019
3. Henderson, Alex. Malachi Thompson: Rising Daystar – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved October 28, 2019.
4. Terrell, T. JazzTimes Review accessed October 28, 2019