Rashied Ali

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Rashied Ali

Rashied Ali (* 1. July 1933 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania as Robert Patterson ; † 12. August 2009 in New York City ) was an American free jazz - and avant-garde jazz - drummer .

Live and act

Ali comes from a family of musicians: his mother once sang with Jimmie Lunceford ; his younger brother Muhammad Ali is also active as a drummer; his eldest son is the bass guitarist Amin Ali . He received music education from the Granoff School and played with US Army bands during the Korean War . Back in Philadelphia he worked with local bands, but also accompanied Big Maybelle and Jimmy Smith . In 1963 he moved to New York City, where he was best known for his work with John Coltrane , whom he knew from the Philadelphia neighborhood. He was originally supposed to play on the album Ascension next to Elvin Jones , then was first heard next to Jones on Meditations (recorded in November 1965). For the first time, Ali put a freely pulsating game under the music of the Coltrane Quartet. In February 1967 the duo album Interstellar Space was created . Ali continued to perform with Alice Coltrane after Coltrane's untimely death .

In the 1970s he opened a jazz club, Ali's Alley and the Survival Records label , which documented his collaboration with Leroy Jenkins and James Blood Ulmer . Later he also played with Sonny Rollins , Pharoah Sanders , Alan Shorter , Ellen Christi , William Parker and Aki Takase . He performed with Evan Parker at the Total Music Meeting . He founded the group Prima Materia , which was dedicated to the music of Coltrane and Albert Ayler . With the Japanese improvisation musician Keiji Haino and the fusion musician Bill Laswell he formed the group Purple Trap , which released their double CD Decided… Already the Motionless Heart of Tranquility, Tangling the Prayer Called "I" on John Zorn's Tzadik label. In 2003 he founded his rashied Ali Quintet , whose playing is documented on three albums.

Selection discography

  • 1971 - New Directions in Modern Music (Knit Classics) with Carlos Ward , Fred Simmons , Stafford James
  • 1972 - Duo Exchange (Knit Classics) with Frank Lowe
  • 1973 - Swift are the Winds of Life (Knit Classics) with Leroy Jenkins
  • 1973 - Rashied Ali Quintet (Knit Classics) with James Blood Ulmer
  • 1974 - Moon Flight (Knitting Factory)
  • 1980 - Afro Algonquin (Moers Music, with Lee Rozie , Rick Rozie )
  • 1994 - Peace on Earth (Knitting Factory) with John Zorn, Allan Chase
  • 1995 - Medeitations (Knitting Factory) with Greg Murphy
  • 1995 - Bells (Knitting Factory)
  • 1999 - Rings of Saturn (Knitting Factory)
  • 2000 - Live at Tonic (DIW) with Wilber Morris

literature

Web links

Commons : Rashied Ali  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ RIP Rashied Ali (1935 - 2009)
  2. ↑ also as CD-ROM. DirectMedia Publ., Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-89853-018-3
personal data
SURNAME Rashied Ali
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Patterson, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz drummer
DATE OF BIRTH July 1, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Philadelphia
DATE OF DEATH August 12, 2009
Place of death New York City