Ahmed Abdul-Malik

   
Artist: Ahmed Abdul-Malik

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Discography:


   
 Jazz Sahara

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Tracks: 4

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Ahmed Abdul-Malik was one of the number 1 musicians to integrate non-Western musical elements into jazz. In improver to being a hard federal Bureau of Prisons bassist of some distinction, he too played the oud, a double-stringed, unfretted Middle Eastern luting, played with a plectron. Abdul-Malik recorded on the tool in the '50s with Johnny Griffin and in 1961 with John Coltrane, contributing to one of the several albums that resulted from the latter's Live at the Village Vanguard sessions.


Abdul-Malik was natural and raised in Brooklyn, NY. In his twenties and thirties, he worked as a bassist with Art Blakey, Randy Weston, and Thelonious Monk, among others. He played the oud on a enlistment of South America under the breastplate of the U.S. State Department, and performed at one of the low gear major African jazz festivals in Morocco in 1972. Beginning in 1970, he taught at New York University and by and by, Brooklyn College. In 1984, he received BMI's Pioneer in Jazz Award in recognition of his work in melding Middle Eastern musics and jazz.





Anna Bissh