Kalil Madi

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Kalil Madi (also Kalil Mahdi or Khalil Madi , born December 13, 1921 in the Bronx , New York City ; † May 20, 2007 there ) was an American jazz musician ( drums ).

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Kalil Madi worked in the New York jazz scene from the early 1950s, a. a. as accompanist for Billie Holiday ; first recordings were made in 1952 with the band of Al Sears . In the following years he played a. a. with “Big Nick” Nicholas , Charlie Singleton , Jackie Paris , Sadik Hakim and Mongo Santamaría ( Watermelon Man , 1973). In 1959, 1960 and 1963 he performed with Dakota Staton at the Newport Jazz Festival . In 1965 he made recordings for Atlantic with pianist Ibn Ali Hasaan , Odean Pope and Art Davis , which, however, remained unpublished; In 1966 he toured (succeeding Bill Dowdy ) with The Three Sounds around Gene Harris ( Vibrations , Blue Note), then played with Freddie McCoy , Earl Hines ( Boogie Woogie on St. Louis Blues ; Prestige 1969). With Hines and his band ( Haywood Henry , Larry Richardson and the singer Marva Josie ) he toured Germany in 1970; this resulted in the MPS album Fatha and His Flock on Tour . In the field of jazz he was involved in 18 recording sessions between 1952 and 1997, most recently with the Charles Gayle Quartet ( Delivered ). In the early 1990s he performed in a trio with Muhammad Salahuddeen (saxophone, vocals) and Halim Richard Clements (bass).

Madi was an uncle of the rapper Kid Cudi (* 1984).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The John Coltrane Reference , ed. by Lewis Porter , Chris DeVito, David Wild, Yasuhiro Fujioka, Wolf Schmaler, 2013, p. 62
  2. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed July 11, 2018)
  3. ^ New York Magazine Sept. 20, 1993
  4. ↑ SPIN, October 2010
personal data
SURNAME Madi, Kalil
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mahdi, Kalil; Madi, Khalil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician (drums)
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Bronx , New York City
DATE OF DEATH May 20, 2007
Place of death Bronx , New York City