Musa Kaleem
Musa Kaleem (actually Orlando Wright , born January 3, 1921 in Wheeling, West Virginia , † March 26, 1988 in Los Angeles ) was an American tenor saxophonist , baritone saxophonist and flautist .
Live and act
Musa Kaleem started his career in 1939 with the formation El Rogers Mystics of Rhythm , whose singer was Eddie Jefferson , and in the same year with one of the first Art Blakey bands in Pittsburgh , who was still a pianist at the time. He later worked with Mary Lou Williams in 1942, Fletcher Henderson in 1943, the Savoy Sultans in 1945, and again with Art Blakey in 1947. With his band, the first recordings for the Blue Note label ("New Sounds") were made in December 1947 . During this time he was a recognized musician on the Pittsburgh jazz scene. In the 1950s he was mostly not musically active, but played sporadically again in the late 1950s, such as in 1958 when recording Tiny Grimes with Coleman Hawkins for the album Blues Groove and in 1959 with James Moody . In the 1960s he accompanied the singer Eddie Jefferson again.
literature
- John Jörgensen, Erik Wiedemann : Jazzlexikon , Munich, Mosaik, 1967.
- Bielefeld Catalog Jazz 2001.
Web links
Remarks
- ↑ He changed his name in the 1940s so as not to be confused with a gospel singer or with a bassist of the same name.
- ↑ data on familysearch
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kaleem, Musa |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wright, Orlando (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American tenor saxophonist, baritone saxophonist, and flautist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 3, 1921 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wheeling, West Virginia |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 26, 1988 |
| Place of death | los Angeles |