Rashied Ali, born Robert Patterson (July 1, 1933 – August 12, 2009)
was an American
free jazz
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and
avant-garde
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drummer best known for playing with
John Coltrane
John William Coltrane (September 23, 1926 – July 17, 1967) was an American jazz saxophonist
The saxophone (often referred to colloquially as the sax) is a type of single-reed woodwind instrument with a conical body, usually made of br ...
in the last years of Coltrane's life.
Biography
Early life
Patterson was born and raised in
Philadelphia
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, Pennsylvania. His family was musical; his mother sang with
Jimmie Lunceford
James Melvin Lunceford (June 6, 1902 – July 12, 1947) was an American jazz alto saxophonist and bandleader in the swing era.
Early life
Lunceford was born on a farm in the Evergreen community, west of the Tombigbee River, near Fulton, Mis ...
.
His brother,
Muhammad Ali
Muhammad Ali (; born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr.; January 17, 1942 – June 3, 2016) was an American professional boxer and activist. Nicknamed "The Greatest", he is regarded as one of the most significant sports figures of the 20th century, a ...
, is also a drummer, who played with
Albert Ayler
Albert Ayler (; July 13, 1936 – November 25, 1970) was an American avant-garde jazz saxophonist, singer and composer.
After early experience playing R&B and bebop, Ayler began recording music during the free jazz era of the 1960s. Howev ...
. Ali, his brother, and his father converted to Islam.
Starting off as a pianist he eventually took up the drums, via trumpet and trombone. He joined the
United States Army
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and played with military bands during the
Korean War
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. After his military service, he returned home and studied with
Philly Joe Jones
Joseph Rudolph "Philly Joe" Jones (July 15, 1923 – August 30, 1985) was an American jazz drummer.
Biography Early career
As a child, Jones appeared as a featured tap dancer on ''The Kiddie Show'' on the Philadelphia radio station WIP. He was ...
,
then toured with
Sonny Rollins
Walter Theodore "Sonny" Rollins (born September 7, 1930) is an American jazz tenor saxophonist who is widely recognized as one of the most important and influential jazz musicians. In a seven-decade career, he has recorded over sixty albums as a ...
.
Career
Ali moved to New York in 1963 and worked in groups with
Bill Dixon and
Paul Bley
Paul Bley, CM (November 10, 1932 – January 3, 2016) was a jazz pianist known for his contributions to the free jazz movement of the 1960s as well as his innovations and influence on trio playing and his early live performance on the Moog and ...
.
He was scheduled to be the second drummer alongside
Elvin Jones
Elvin Ray Jones (September 9, 1927 – May 18, 2004) was an American jazz drummer of the post-bop era.
Most famously a member of John Coltrane's quartet, with whom he recorded from late 1960 to late 1965, Jones appeared on such widely celebrate ...
on
John Coltrane
John William Coltrane (September 23, 1926 – July 17, 1967) was an American jazz saxophonist
The saxophone (often referred to colloquially as the sax) is a type of single-reed woodwind instrument with a conical body, usually made of br ...
's free jazz album ''
Ascension'', but he dropped out just before the recording was to take place.
Coltrane did not replace him and settled for one drummer. Ali recorded with Coltrane beginning in 1965 on the album ''
Meditations
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Marcus Aurelius wrote the 12 books of the ''Meditations'' in Koine ...
''.
Among his credits are the last recorded work by Coltrane (''
The Olatunji Concert'') and ''
Interstellar Space
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'', an album of duets recorded earlier in 1967. Ali "became important in stimulating the most avant-garde kinds of jazz activities,"
playing what Coltrane described as "multi-directional rhythms". After Coltrane's death, Ali performed with his widow, pianist
Alice Coltrane
Alice Coltrane (' McLeod; August 27, 1937January 12, 2007), also known by her adopted Sanskrit name Turiyasangitananda, was an American jazz musician and composer, and in her later years a swamini. An accomplished pianist and one of the few har ...
.
During the early 1970s, he ran Ali's Alley, a loft club in New York City.
He was a visiting artist at
Wesleyan University
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, sponsored by
Clifford Thornton
Clifford Edward Thornton III (September 6, 1936 – November 25, 1989) was an American jazz trumpeter, trombonist, activist, and educator. He played free jazz and avant-garde jazz in the 1960s and '70s.
Career
Clifford was born in Philadelphia. ...
. He also briefly formed a non-jazz group called Purple Trap with Japanese experimental guitarist
Keiji Haino
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and jazz-fusion bassist
Bill Laswell
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. Their album, ''Decided...Already the Motionless Heart of Tranquility, Tangling the Prayer Called "I"'', was released by
Tzadik Records
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in March 1999.
In the 1980s, he was member of
Phalanx
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, a group with guitarist
James Blood Ulmer
James "Blood" Ulmer (born February 8, 1940) is an American jazz, free funk and blues guitarist and singer. Ulmer plays a Gibson Byrdland guitar. His guitar sound has been described as "jagged" and "stinging". His singing has been called "ragge ...
, tenor saxophonist
George Adams, and bassist
Sirone
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.
From 1997 to 2003 he played extensively with
Tisziji Munoz in a group that usually included
Pharoah Sanders
Pharoah Sanders (born Ferrell Lee Sanders; October 13, 1940 – September 24, 2022) was an American jazz saxophonist. Known for his overblowing, harmonic, and multiphonic techniques on the saxophone, as well as his use of "sheets of sound", San ...
.
Though known for his work in jazz, Ali contributed to other experimental art forms, including multi-media performances with the Gift of Eagle Orchestra and Cosmic Legends, performances such as Devachan and the Monads, Dwarf of Oblivion, which took place at
The Kitchen Center for Performance Art, and a tribute to
John Cage
John Milton Cage Jr. (September 5, 1912 – August 12, 1992) was an American composer and music theorist. A pioneer of indeterminacy in music, electroacoustic music, and non-standard use of musical instruments, Cage was one of the leading fi ...
in New York's
Central Park
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. Other artists of the orchestra and Cosmic Legends have included Hayes Greenfield (sax),
Perry Robinson
Perry Morris Robinson (September 17, 1938 – December 2, 2018) was an American jazz clarinetist and composer. He was the son of composer Earl Robinson.
Early life and education
Robinson was born and grew up in New York City. He attended the Le ...
(clarinet), Wayne Lopes (guitar),
Dave Douglas (trumpeter)
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, Gloria Tropp (vocals), Louise Landes Levi (sarangi)director/pianist Sylvie Degiez along with poets and actors
Ira Cohen
Ira Cohen (February 3, 1935 – April 25, 2011) was an American poet, publisher, photographer and filmmaker.
Cohen lived in Morocco and in New York City in the 1960s, he was in Kathmandu in the 1970s and traveled the world in the 1980s, before ...
,
Taylor Mead
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, and
Judith Malina
Judith Malina (June 4, 1926 – April 10, 2015) was a German-born American actress, director and writer. With her husband, Julian Beck, Malina co-founded The Living Theatre, a radical political theatre troupe that rose to prominence in New York C ...
.
Later life
In the last years of his life, Ali led his own quintet. A double album entitled ''Judgment Day'' was recorded in February 2005 and features Jumaane Smith on trumpet, Lawrence Clark on tenor saxophone, Greg Murphy on piano, and
Joris Teepe
Joris Teepe is a Dutch jazz bassist, composer, arranger, and big-band leader. He plays contemporary jazz, bebop, and free jazz.
Biography
Teepe studied at the Conservatory of Amsterdam. In 1992 the left-handed bassist moved to New York City, wh ...
on bass. This album was recorded at Ali's own Survival Studio, which has been in existence since the 1970s. In addition to his performance activities Ali served as mentor to young drummers such as Matt Smith.
In 2007, Ali recorded ''
Going to the Ritual'' in duo with bassist/violinist
Henry Grimes
Henry Grimes (November 3, 1935 – April 15, 2020) was an American jazz double bassist and violinist.
After more than a decade of activity and performance, notably as a leading bassist in free jazz, Grimes completely disappeared from the music s ...
with a second duo recording in post-production at the time of Ali's death. Ali and Grimes also played five duo concerts together between 2007 and 2009 and a sixth concert in June 2007 with pianist
Marilyn Crispell
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. Ali is the featured drummer on
Azar Lawrence's album ''Mystic Journey'', recorded in April 2009 and released in May 2010.
Rashied Ali died at age 76 in a Manhattan hospital after suffering a heart attack.
He is survived by wife Patricia and three children.
Discography
As leader or co-leader
* 1971 – ''
New Directions in Modern Music
''New Directions in Modern Music'' is a live album by the Rashied Ali Quartet. It was recorded at The East in Brooklyn, New York, during 1971, and was released in 1973 by Ali's Survival Records. On the album, Ali is featured on drums and percussio ...
'' (Survival, reissued by Knit Classics) with
Carlos Ward
Carlos Ward (born May 1, 1940 in Ancón, Panama) is a funk and jazz alto saxophonist and flautist. He is best known as a member of the Funk and disco band BT Express as well as a jazz sideman.
Biography
Ward was raised in Panama City, and at a ...
, Fred Simmons,
Stafford James
Stafford James (born April 24, 1946) is an American double-bassist and composer.Allmusic/ref>
Biography
Stafford James was born in Evanston, Illinois. From ages 6 to 11 he was a left handed violinist in the school orchestra. He also possessed d ...
* 1972 – ''
Duo Exchange
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'' (Survival, reissued by Knit Classics) with
Frank Lowe
Frank Lowe (June 24, 1943 – September 19, 2003) was an American avant-garde jazz saxophonist and composer.
Biography
Born and brought up in Memphis, Tennessee, Lowe took up the tenor saxophone at the age of 12. As an adult he moved to San Fra ...
* 1975 – ''
Swift Are the Winds of Life'' (Survival, reissued by Knit Classics) with
Leroy Jenkins
* 1973 – ''Rashied Ali Quintet'' (Survival, reissued by Knit Classics) with
James Blood Ulmer
James "Blood" Ulmer (born February 8, 1940) is an American jazz, free funk and blues guitarist and singer. Ulmer plays a Gibson Byrdland guitar. His guitar sound has been described as "jagged" and "stinging". His singing has been called "ragge ...
* 1974 – ''Moon Flight'' (
Knitting Factory
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The Knitting Factory gave its audience poetry readings, perform ...
)
* 1975 – ''N.Y. Ain't So Bad'' (Survival, reissued by Knit Classics)
* 1989 – ''Rashied Ali in France'' (Blue Music Group)
* 1994 – ''Peace on Earth: The Music of John Coltrane'' (Knitting Factory) with Prima Materia and guests
John Zorn
John Zorn (born September 2, 1953) is an American composer, conductor, saxophonist, arranger and producer who "deliberately resists category". Zorn's avant-garde and experimental approaches to composition and improvisation are inclusive of jaz ...
, Allan Chase
* 1995 – ''Meditations'' (Knitting Factory) with Prima Materia, including
Greg Murphy
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* 1995 – ''Bells'' (Knitting Factory) with Prima Materia
* 1999 – ''Rings of Saturn'' (Knitting Factory), duets with tenor saxophonist Louie Belogenis
* 2000 – ''Live at Tonic'' (
DIW) with
Wilber Morris
Wilber Morris (November 27, 1937 - August 8, 2002) was an American jazz double bass player and bandleader. He was the brother of the cornetist, composer, and conductor Butch Morris.Allmusic/ref>
Wilber Morris recorded widely, and performed with ...
* 2008 – ''
Going to the Ritual'' (
Porter
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* H.K. Porter, Inc., ...
) with bassist
Henry Grimes
Henry Grimes (November 3, 1935 – April 15, 2020) was an American jazz double bassist and violinist.
After more than a decade of activity and performance, notably as a leading bassist in free jazz, Grimes completely disappeared from the music s ...
* 2009 – ''At the Vision Festival'' with
Greg Tardy,
James Hurt,
Omer Avital
Omer Avital (born May 13, 1971, Givatayim, Israel) is an Israeli-American jazz bassist, composer and bandleader.
Early life
Avital was born in the town of Givatayim to Moroccan and Yemeni parents.
At age 11, he began his formal training, s ...
(Blue Music Group)
* 2009 – ''Eddie Jefferson at Ali's Alley'' with
Eddie Jefferson
Eddie Jefferson (August 3, 1918 – May 9, 1979) was an American jazz vocalist and lyricist. He is credited as an innovator of vocalese, a musical style in which lyrics are set to an instrumental composition or solo. Jefferson himself claims t ...
(Blue Music Group)
* 2009 – ''Configurations, the Music of John Coltrane'' with Prima Materia (Blue Music Group)
* 2009 – ''Cutt'n Korners'' with Greg Tardy, Antoine Drye and
Abraham Burton
Abraham Augustus Burton Jr. (born March 17, 1971) is an American saxophonist and bandleader.
Biography
Burton was born in New York City on March 17, 1971, and was raised in Greenwich Village. He studied at the Hartt School from 1989 to 1993, gradu ...
(Blue Music Group)
* 2010 – ''
Spirits Aloft'' (Porter) with bassist Henry Grimes
* 2020 – ''First Time Out: Live At Slugs 1967'' (Rashied Ali Quintet)
As sideman
With
Gary Bartz
Gary Bartz (born September 26, 1940) is an American jazz saxophonist. He has won two Grammy Awards.
Biography
Bartz studied at the Juilliard School. In the early 1960s, he performed with Eric Dolphy and McCoy Tyner in Charles Mingus' Jazz Works ...
*''
Home!'' (Milestone, 1970)
With
Peter Brötzmann
Peter Brötzmann (born 6 March 1941) is a German saxophonist and clarinetist.
Biography Early life
Brötzmann was born in Remscheid, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He studied painting in Wuppertal and was involved with the Fluxus movement ...
*''Songlines'' (1991)
With
Michael Bocian
*''Go Groove'' (1991)
With
Marion Brown
Marion Brown (September 8, 1931 – October 18, 2010) was an American jazz alto saxophonist, composer, writer, visual artist, and ethnomusicologist. He was a member of the avant-garde jazz scene in New York City during the 1960s, playing alongsi ...
*''
Marion Brown Quartet'' (1966)
*''
Why Not?'' (1968)
With
Alice Coltrane
Alice Coltrane (' McLeod; August 27, 1937January 12, 2007), also known by her adopted Sanskrit name Turiyasangitananda, was an American jazz musician and composer, and in her later years a swamini. An accomplished pianist and one of the few har ...
*''
A Monastic Trio
''A Monastic Trio'' is the first solo album by Alice Coltrane. It was recorded in 1968 at the John Coltrane Home in Dix Hills, New York, and was released later that year by Impulse! Records. On the album, Coltrane appears on piano and harp, and is ...
'' (1968)
*''
Huntington Ashram Monastery'' (1969)
*''
Journey in Satchidananda
''Journey in Satchidananda'' is the fourth solo album by Alice Coltrane. Four of the album's tracks were recorded at the Coltrane home studios in Dix Hills, New York, in November 1970, while the remaining track was recorded live at the Village Gat ...
'' (1970)
*''
Universal Consciousness
''Universal Consciousness'' is the fifth solo album by Alice Coltrane. It was recorded from April to June, 1971, in New York City and at the John Coltrane Home, Coltrane home studios in Dix Hills, New York, and was released later that year by Impul ...
'' (1971)
With
John Coltrane
John William Coltrane (September 23, 1926 – July 17, 1967) was an American jazz saxophonist
The saxophone (often referred to colloquially as the sax) is a type of single-reed woodwind instrument with a conical body, usually made of br ...
*''
Meditations
''Meditations'' () is a series of personal writings by Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor from AD 161 to 180, recording his private notes to himself and ideas on Stoic philosophy.
Marcus Aurelius wrote the 12 books of the ''Meditations'' in Koine ...
'' (Impulse!, 1965)
*''
Live at the Village Vanguard Again!
''Live At The Village Vanguard Again!'' is a live jazz album by saxophonist John Coltrane. Recorded in May 1966 during a live performance at the Village Vanguard jazz club in New York City, the album features Coltrane playing in the free jazz sty ...
'' (Impulse!, 1966)
*''
Live in Japan'' (Impulse!, 1966)
*''
Offering: Live at Temple University'' (Resonance, 1966)
*''
Interstellar Space
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'' (Impulse!, 1967)
*''
Stellar Regions'' (Impulse!, 1967)
*''
Expression
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* Fixed expression, a form of words with a specific meaning
* Idiom, a type of fixed expression
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'' (Impulse!, 1967)
*''
The Olatunji Concert: The Last Live Recording'' (Impulse!, 1967)
*''
Cosmic Music
''Cosmic Music'' is a jazz album by John Coltrane and Alice Coltrane released after John Coltrane's death. John Coltrane only plays on two tracks, "Manifestation" and "Reverend King".
Background
In late January 1966, Coltrane and his group, which ...
'' (Impulse!, 1968)
With
Charles Gayle
Charles Gayle (born February 28, 1939) is an American free jazz musician. Initially known as a saxophonist who came to prominence in the 1990s after decades of obscurity, Gayle also performs as pianist, bass clarinetist, bassist, and percussioni ...
*''
Touchin' on Trane'' (FMP, 1991
993
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Events
By place
Europe
* Spring – The 12-year-old King Otto III gives the Sword of Saints Cosmas and Damian ...
With
Jackie McLean
John Lenwood "Jackie" McLean (May 17, 1931 – March 31, 2006) was an American jazz alto saxophonist, composer, bandleader, and educator, and is one of the few musicians to be elected to the ''DownBeat'' Hall of Fame in the year of their deat ...
*''
'Bout Soul'' (Blue Note, 1967)
With
Tisziji Munoz
*''The River of Blood'' (Anami Music, 1997)
*''Present Without A Trace'' (Anami Music, 1997)
*''Spirit World'' (Anami Music, 1997)
*''Presence of Truth'' (Anami Music, 1999)
*''Presence of Joy'' (Anami Music, 1999)
*''Presence of Mastery'' (Anami Music, 1999)
*''Breaking the Wheel of Life and Death'' (Anami Music, 2000)
*''Parallel Reality'' (Anami Music, 2000)
*''The Hu-Man Spirit'' (Anami Music, 2001)
*''Shaman-Bala'' (Anami Music, 2002)
*''Divine Radiance'' (Anami Music, 2003)
*''Divine Radiance Live!'' (Anami Music, 2013)
*''Paul Shaffer Presents: Tisziji Muñoz – Divine Radiance Live!'' DVD (Anami Music, 2013)
*''Sky Worlds'' (Anami Music, 2014)
With
David Murray
*''
Body and Soul'' (1993)
With
Phalanx
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*''
Original Phalanx'' (DIW, 1987)
*''
In Touch'' (DIW, 1988)
With
Archie Shepp
Archie Shepp (born May 24, 1937) is an American jazz saxophonist, educator and playwright who since the 1960s has played a central part in the development of avant-garde jazz.
Biography Early life
Shepp was born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, but ...
* ''
On This Night'' (Impulse, 1965)
With
Alan Shorter
Alan Shorter (May 29, 1932 – April 5, 1988) was a free jazz trumpet and flugelhorn player, and the older brother of composer and saxophone player Wayne Shorter.
Biography
Shorter was born in the Ironbound District in Newark, New Jersey. He st ...
* ''
Orgasm
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'' (Verve, 1968)
* ''
Parabolic'' (Verve, 1969)
With
James Blood Ulmer
James "Blood" Ulmer (born February 8, 1940) is an American jazz, free funk and blues guitarist and singer. Ulmer plays a Gibson Byrdland guitar. His guitar sound has been described as "jagged" and "stinging". His singing has been called "ragge ...
*''
Music Speaks Louder Than Words
''Music Speaks Louder Than Words'' is an album released by Epic Records in 1990.
Overview
Artists such as Cyndi Lauper, Atlantic Starr, Roberta Flack, Patti LaBelle, Earth, Wind & Fire, Anne Murray and the Cover Girls featured on the album.
...
'' (DIW, 1996)
With
Frank Wright
*''
Blues for Albert Ayler'' (ESP-Disk, 2012)
References
External links
Official site
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