Ameen Saleem

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Ameen Saleem (born July 2, 1979 in Washington, DC is an American musician ( double bass ) of modern jazz .

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Saleem grew up in Washington, DC and initially played the French horn . He studied bass with the District of Columbia Youth Orchestra and at the Duke Ellington School of the Arts ( graduated in 1997). He completed his bachelor's degree in 2001 with honors (“ magna cum laude ”) from North Carolina Central University ; He received his Masters in 2005 from the Aaron Copland School of Music ( Queens College ). Since then he has worked in the New York jazz scene a. a. with Winard Harper ( A Time for the Soul , 2003), in Farnell Newton / Marcus Reynolds Quintet, Alvin Atkinson, Jr., Roy Hargrove , Mamiko Watanabe , Simona Premazzi , Chris Parker, Eric Wyatt , Frank Lacy and Sullivan Fortner . In 2013 he recorded his debut album The Groove Lab with musicians such as Roy Hargrove, Stacy Dillard , Cyrus Chestnut and Gregory Hutchinson . Saleem lives in Brooklyn, New York. In the field of jazz, he was involved in 16 recording sessions between 2003 and 2017, according to Tom Lord . In early 2020 Saleem also led a quartet that includes Josh Evans (trumpet), Tadataka Unno (piano) and Jason Brown (drums).

Saleem wrote parts of the music for the film "Ohrensausen" by Alessandro Aronadio .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b information from All About Jazz )
  2. ↑ a b c Ameen Saleem, bass. Smalls, January 1, 2020, accessed January 12, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Meeting (AllAboutJazz)
  4. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed January 12, 2020)
  5. ↑ Ameen Saleem in the Internet Movie Database (English)
personal data
SURNAME Saleem, Ameen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician (double bass)
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd July 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Washington, DC