Talib Dawud
Talib Ahmad Dawud (actually Alfonso Nelson Rainey , born January 26, 1923 in Antigua , † July 9, 1999 in New York City ) was an American jazz trumpeter .
Life
Dawud was from Antigua and Barbuda and had lessons from his father, a trumpeter who played in marching bands; his mother was a singer who accompanied herself on the piano. Dawud also learned the banjo and organ . He continued his education at high school and music school in the USA when he came to New York in the late 1930s. Because of the support from the Barrymore Foundation, he initially took the stage name Barrymore Rainey. After studying at the Juilliard School in 1940, he played with Tiny Bradshaw , Louis Armstrong , Benny Carter , Andy Kirk , Jimmie Lunceford , Roy Eldridge and other swing orchestras. In Philadelphia he met Sheik Nasir Ahmad know, which then moved him to convert to Islam and take the name Talib Dawud . In the second half of the 1940s and again from 1956, he was a member of the Dizzy Gillespie Big Band , which performed at the 1957 Newport Jazz Festival . In the field of jazz he was involved in 20 recording sessions between 1944 and 1957.
He married the singer Dakota Staton in 1958 , ceased to be an active musician in 1959 and ran an Africa import shop in New York City. As a member of the Islamic sect Ahmadiyya Muslim Brotherhood of America, Inc. , which differs from the Nation of Islam distant, he wrote numerous articles in the African-American Chicago newspaper New Crusader controversy between Elijah Muhammad and Malcolm X .
Web links
- Eugene Chadbourne : Talib Dawud on Allmusic (English)
- Talib Dawood at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ See Robert Dannin: Black Pilgrimage to Islam . New York: Oxford University Press, 2002, p. 58
- ↑ Tom Lord Jazz Discography
- ^ Brenda Gayle Plummer: Rising Wind: Black Americans and US Foreign Affairs, 1935-1960 . Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996, p. 275
- ↑ http://detroitred.tumblr.com/post/3856812950/malcolmology-101-18-noi-answers-muslim-critics
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dawud, Talib |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Dawud, Talib Ahmad (full name); Rainey, Alfonso Nelson (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz trumpeter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 26, 1923 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | on Antigua |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 9, 1999 |
| Place of death | New York City |