Ahmed Abdul-Malik

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Complete Blue Note Recordings
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Thelonious Monk
Label: Blue Note
Number of Discs: 4

This magnificent limited-edition set launched the Mosaic label in real style. Included are all of Thelonious Monk's Blue Note recordings, six sessions as a leader [more]

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At the Village Gate
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Herbie Mann
Label: Rhino
Number of Discs: 1

Remarkably few of flutist Herbie Mann's recordings are available on CD, but fortunately this one did get reissued. Mann's hit version of "It Ain't Necessarily So"; the latter is 20 minutes long. Recommended. ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide

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At the Five Spot
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Thelonious Monk
Label: Milestone Records
Number of Discs: 1

One of Thelonious Monk's finest bands was the quartet he led in 1958 that featured tenor-saxophonist Johnny Griffin. Griffin sounded quite comfortable playing Monk's music and [more]

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How High The Moon (Collectables)
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Randy Weston
Number of Discs: 1

This spirited Lp (which has a jam session feel to it) features pianist Randy Weston for the first time with a group as large as a quintet. With assistance from trumpeter Ray Copeland, baritonist Cecil Payne (who switches to alto on

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African Beat
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Art Blakey
Label: Blue Note
Number of Discs: 1

While not a universally praised piece of the Art Blakey discography, The African Beat is quite engaging. Yusef Lateef is the only horn player, featured on oboe, flute, tenor sax, cow [more]

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Jutta Hipp With Zoot Sims
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Jutta Hipp with Zoot Sims
Label: Blue Note
Number of Discs: 1

Jutta Hipp, a talented German pianist, came to the United States in the mid-'50s and quickly gained some attention. However, she was soon criticized for [more]

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Modern Art [Bonus Tracks]
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Art Farmer
Release Year: 1958
Number of Discs: 1
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Complete Live at the Five Spot 1958
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Thelonious Monk Quartet/John Coltrane
Label: Gambit
Number of Discs: 1

Even before the first note is played, the apocrypha proclaiming this to be a non-professional recording -- which finds Naima Coltrane [more]

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Life in Time: The Roy Haynes Story [Bonus DVD]
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Roy Haynes
Number of Discs: 4
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Best of Johnny Griffin
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Johnny Griffin
Label: Riverside
Number of Discs: 1

Nick Phillips compiled this chronologically arranged nine-track overview of the career of "The Little Giant," Johnny Griffin, as a leader and as a sideman for the [more]

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Biography

  • Born Jan 30th 1927 in New York, NY
  • Died Oct 2nd 1993 in Long Branch, NJ

Ahmed Abdul-Malik was one of the first musicians to integrate non-Western musical elements into jazz. In addition to being a hard bop bassist of some distinction, he also played the oud, a double-stringed, unfretted Middle Eastern lute, played with a plectrum. Abdul-Malik recorded on the instrument in the '50s with Johnny Griffin and in 1961 with John Coltrane, contributing to one of the several albums that resulted from the latter's Live at the Village Vanguard sessions.

Abdul-Malik was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY. In his twenties and thirties, he worked as a bassist with Art Blakey, Randy Weston, and Thelonious Monk, among others. He played the oud on a tour of South America under the aegis of the U.S. State Department, and performed at one of the first major African jazz festivals in Morocco in 1972. Beginning in 1970, he taught at New York University and later, Brooklyn College. In 1984, he received BMI's Pioneer in Jazz Award in recognition of his work in melding Middle Eastern musics and jazz. ~ Chris Kelsey, All Music Guide