Lift Every Voice (Malachi Thompson album)

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Lift Every Voice
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Studio album by
Released1993
RecordedAugust 24 & 25, 1992
StudioRiverside Studio, Chicago
Genre Jazz
Length61:13
Label Delmark
DE-463
Producer Robert G. Koester
Malachi Thompson chronology
The Jaz Life
(1992)
Lift Every Voice
(1993)
New Standards
(1993)

Lift Every Voice is an album by the American jazz trumpeter Malachi Thompson recorded and released by the Delmark label in 1983. [1] [2] [3]

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Reception

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Allmusic reviewer Ron Wynn stated "Malachi Thompson merges hard bop, free, African rhythms, and gospel stylings on this release. ... Thompson deserves high praise not just for trying something different, but succeeding". [4]

Track listing

All compositions by Malachi Thompson except where noted

  1. "Elephantine Island" – 3:44
  2. "Old Man River" (Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II) – 12:18
  3. "Tales of Ancient Kemet" – 7:49
  4. "Transition" (John Coltrane) – 6:23
  5. "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing" (James Weldon Johnson, John Rosamond Johnson) – 10:37
  6. "Nubian Call" – 5:40
  7. "The Trick of the Trip" – 4:13
  8. "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen" (Traditional) – 10:29

Personnel

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References

  1. Jazzlists: Delmark Records discography: 400/500 series accessed October 14, 2019
  2. Delmark Records: album details accessed October 14, 2019
  3. Jazzlists: Carter Jefferson discography accessed October 14, 2019
  4. 1 2 Wynn, Ron. Malachi Thompson: Lift Every Voice – Review at AllMusic . Retrieved October 14, 2019.
  5. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1399. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.