Nadi Qamar
Nadi Qamar (actually Spaulding Givens , born July 6, 1917 in Cincinnati , Ohio ) is an American jazz pianist and ethnomusicologist . He popularized the game of the African thumb piano .
Live and act
Givens, who later took the Islamic name Nadi Qamar , played in a duet with Charles Mingus in April 1951 the first tracks for his newly founded music label Debut Records ( Strings and Keys ), including his composition Blue Tide . In April 1953 he took up again with Mingus and Max Roach the titles Day Dream and "Theme from Rhapsody in Blue" . Qamar then became involved with African music and played with various African formations that were touring the United States. In October 1965 he was involved in the recording of Andrew Hill's album Compulsion! involved as percussionist and player of the African thumb piano ; he then took part in another Session Hills, which took place in February 1967 and was published in 2005 on the anthology Mosaic Select . In 1970 he worked with Rufus Harley and was involved in his album King / Queens . In 1975 he presented a record for learning the thumb pianos Likembe and Mbira . Together with Milford Graves he was a professor at Bennington College in Vermont. In February 2008, an exhibition of Qamar's collection of African musical instruments was held.
Selection discography
- Charles Mingus: The Complete Debut Recordings 1951–1958 (Debut / Fantasy Records )
- Andre Hill: Compulsion . ( Blue Note Records , 1967)
- Mama-Likembi Instruction Record ( Smithsonian Folkway , 1975)
- Likembi Song Book (Folkway Records, 1979)
- From Spaulding Givens to Nadi Qamar (self-published, 2011)
literature
- Richard Cook , Brian Morton : The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD. 6th edition. Penguin, London 2002, ISBN 0-14-051521-6 .
- Bielefeld catalog 1988 & 2002
- Nat Hentoff : Liner notes (2006) for the new edition of Andrew Hills Compulsion (Blue Note)
Web links
- Qamar's Facebook page
- Mama-Likembi Instruction Record (thumb piano)
- Nadi Qamar at Allmusic (English)
- Spaulding Givens at Allmusic (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Aaron Horne: Brass Music of Black Composers: A Bibliography. Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996, p. 224 limited preview in Google Book search
- ^ Smithsonian Institution
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Qamar, Nadi |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Givens, Spaulding (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz pianist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 6, 1917 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cincinnati , Ohio |