Sabir Mateen

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Sabir Mateen, moers festival 2008
Sabir Mateen with drummer Steve Noble

Sabir Mateen (born April 16, 1951 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania ) is an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist and flutist.

Mateen made his first recordings in 1980 with Horace Tapscott's Pan African People's Arkestra . In 1989 he returned to New York, where he released the duo album Getting Away With Murder , a live recording of a performance in New York's Grand Central Terminal , in 1995 with drummer Tom Bruno . He then belonged to Bruno's Quartet Test, alongside Matt Heyner and Daniel Carter , and became known for his appearances in the New York subway system.

He was also a member of the Raphe Malik Quartet and the One World Ensemble and formed the trio Tenor Rising, Drums Expanding with Daniel Carter and David Nuss . In 1997 he played the album Divine Mad Love with his own trio (with John Voigt and Lawrence Cook ) .

In the following years Mateen recorded duo albums with Sunny Murray , Hamid Drake and Ben Karetnick . In 2001 the album Secrets of When followed with The Sabir Mateen Quintet . As a sideman he worked a. a. with Cecil Taylor , William Parker , Alan Silva , Butch and Wilber Morris , Steve Swell , Mark Whitecage , Roy Campbell , Matthew Shipp ( ur Lady of the Flowers , 2015), Marc Edwards , Jemeel Moondoc , William Hooker , Henry Grimes , Rashid Bakr and Kali Fasteau .

Discography

  • Getting Away With Murder with Tom Bruno, 1995
  • Divine Mad Love with Laurence Cook, John Voigt, 1997
  • We Are Not at the Opera with Sunny Murray, 1998
  • Secrets of When with Raphe Malik, Jane Wang , 2001
  • Brothers Together with Hamid Drake, 2000
  • Sun Xing [live] with Ben Karetnick, 2002
  • Prophecies Come to Pass 2006
  • Sabir Mateen, Sirone, Andrew Barker : Infinite Flowers (Sagittarius A-Star, 2008, ed. 2013)
  • SaMa Live in Moscow Duo with Matthew Shipp, 2009 / release 2011
  • The Sabir Mateen Jubilee Ensemble ( Not Two Records , 2012)
  • Mateen, Bauer, Tokar, Kugel: Collective Four (For Tune, 2016), with Mark Tokar , Conny Bauer , Klaus Kugel
  • The Gathering of the Angels (Klopotec, 2017)
  • Survival Situation (577 Records, 2020), with Patrick Holmes , Federico Ughi

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personal data
SURNAME Mateen, Sabir
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist and flutist
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Philadelphia , Pennsylvania