Ahmed Abdul Malik

Ahmed Abdul-Malik is a Contrebassiste of American Jazz , born the January 30th 1927 with Brooklyn (New York) and dead the October 2nd 1993 with Long Branch (New Jersey).

It is also known to be one of the first jazzmen used Eastern string instruments, in particular the Oud.

Biography

Of Sudanese origin by her father, Ahmed Abdul-Malik in her childhood followed a traditional training of musician. He learned the violin, the violoncello, the piano and the double bass. After beginnings in the classical music, it made its beginning in the jazz like Contrebassiste in the years 1940. He played, inter alia, in the orchestra of Art Blakey (1945 - 1948), Randy Weston (1957), Thelonious Monk (1957 - 1958). One also could hear it nap Sideman at the sides of Don Byas, Herbie Mann, Anthony Ortega, Walt Dickerson,…

Impassioned by the Eastern and African musics, it was initiated with instruments like the Oud (Eastern lute) and the Qanun (kind of Egyptian Santour). It went on besides a journey for ethnomusicographic research in Africa in 1961. It recorded as player of oud as of the years 1950. John Coltrane called upon him to play of this instrument at sessions of the “Vanguard Village” of 1961.

Abdul-Malik recorded under its name, or like sideman, of the albums very inspired by the musics of the Middle-East. the “universality” of its music made that, in the years 1960, the “U.S. State Department” organized for its group a round in South America. Abdul-Malik also occurred in 1972 in Morocco at the time of the first “African jazz festival”.

In addition, as from the years 1970, Abdul-Malik carried out a career of teacher (in the “New York University” then in “Brooklyn College”).

Discographic as leader

  • 1958 - Jazz the Sahara (Original jazz classic). with Johnny Griffin) with the Saxophone tenor

  • 1959 - East Meets West (RCA)
  • 1961 - The music off Ahmed Abdul-Malik (Prestige/New jazz)
  • 1962 - Jazz Sounds off Africa (Prestige/New jazz)
  • 1963 - Eastern Moods off Ahmed Abdul Malik (Prestige/New jazz)
  • 1964 - Spellbound (status)

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