AK Salim

AK Salim (* as Ahmad Khatah Atkinson on July 28, 1922 in Chicago ) is an American alto saxophonist and arranger of swing and modern jazz .

AK Salim played alto saxophone in various bands from 1938, such as King Kolax (1938/39), Jimmy Rachel 1941/42, Tiny Bradshaw 1943 and took part in the jam sessions in New York's Minton’s Playhouse around 1943 together with Lester Young and Charlie Parker part. From 1944 Salim worked as an arranger for Lucky Millinder (until 1946), Cab Calloway , Jimmy Lunceford , Lionel Hampton and until 1949 Count Basie . After that he was musically inactive until 1956, but took up his work as an arranger again, so for Tito Puente and again for Count Basie. Around 1957 he played a few albums under his own name for Savoy Records .

Selected discography

Flute Suite (Savoy, 1957), with Frank Rehak , Herbie Mann , Frank Wess , Hank Jones , Wendell Marshall , Bobby Donaldson
Yusef Lateef / AK Salim - Stablemates (Savoy, 1957), with Johnny Coles , Buster Cooper , Johnny Griffin , Howard Austin, Tommy Flanagan , Kenny Burrell , George Duvivier , Osie Johnson
Pretty For The People (Savoy, 1957), with Kenny Dorham , Buster Cooper, Johnny Griffin, Pepper Adams , Wynton Kelly , Paul Chambers , Max Roach , Chino Pozo
Modern Sounds - The Complete Savoy Recordings

Carlo Bohländer , Karl Heinz Holler, Christian Pfarr: Reclam's Jazz Guide . 4th, revised and supplemented edition. Reclam, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-15-010355-X .
Martin Kunzler : Jazzlexikon, Reinbek, Rowohlt, 1993
Bielefeld Catalog Jazz 2001

personal data
SURNAME	Salim, AK
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Atkinson, Ahmad Khatah (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American alto saxophonist and arranger
DATE OF BIRTH	July 28, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH	Chicago