Sabir Mateen (born April 16, 1951) is an American musician and composer from

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. His musical style is primarily

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. He plays

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and

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, B♭ and alto clarinet, and

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. As a young man, Mateen was originally a percussionist, and he started playing flute as a teenager. From there he moved to alto and then tenor saxophone. He started out playing

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in the early 1970s which led him to the tenor saxophone chair of the

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, Butch and

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, William Hooker,

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, and Hamid Drake. He is a member of the band

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, with Daniel Carter.

Discography

As leader/co-leader

* Tom Bruno, Sabir Mateen: ''Gettin' Away with Murder'' (Eremite, 1995) * One World Ensemble: ''Breathing Together'' (Freedom, 1995) * '' Divine Mad Love'' (Eremite, 1998) * Sunny Murray w/ Sabir Mateen: '' We Are Not at the Opera'' (Eremite, 1998) * Hamid Drake & Sabir Mateen: '' Brothers Together'' (Eremite, 2000) * Sabir Mateen, Ben Karetnick: ''Sun Xing'' (JMZ, 2001) * '' Secrets of When'' (Bleu Regard, 2001) * Frode Gjerstad / Sabir Mateen: ''Good Question'' (FMR, 2005) * Sabir Mateen - Daniel Carter - Andrew Barker - ''Not On Earth ... In Your Soul!'' (Qbico, 2005) * ''Other Places, Other Spaces'' (Nu Bop, 2005) * Sunny Murray w/ Sabir Mateen: '' Perles Noires'' (Eremite, 2005) * ''Prophecies Come To Pass'' (577 Records, 2006) * William Hooker / Sabir Mateen "Dharma" (KMB Jazz, 2007) * ''Urdla XXX'' (Not Two, 2010) * Sabir Mateen / Matthew Shipp: '' SAMA'' (Not Two, 2010) * Sabir Mateen / Frode Gjerstad featuring Steve Swell: ''Sound Gathering'' (Not Two, 2010) * Sabir Mateen / Matthew Shipp: ''SaMa Live in Moscow'' (SoLyd, 2011) * ''The Sabir Mateen Jubilee Ensemble'' (Not Two, 2013) * Blood Trio: ''Understory'' (Not Two, 2013) * JOYS! (577 Records, 2016)

With Test

*''Test'' (Estatic Peace, 1996) *''Ahead'' (Now Jazz/Ramwong, 1997) *''Test'' (Aum Fidelity, 1998) *''Live'' (Eremite, 1998)

As sideman

With

* ''Red Sprite & Blue Jets'' (CIMP, 1997) With William Hooker * ''Yearn for Certainty'' (Engine Records, 2010) With

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'' (Eremite, 1999) * '' Looking East: A Suite in Three Parts'' (Boxholder, 2001) With William Parker *'' Spontaneous'' (Splasc(H), 2002) *'' For Percy Heath'' (Victo, 2005) With Samo Salamon * ''Joy and Sorrow'' (Klopotec Records, 2022) With

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, 2015) With

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Alan Silva & the Sound Visions Orchestra ''Alan Silva & the Sound Visions Orchestra'' is a live album by multi-instrumentalist Alan Silva. It was recorded in May 1999 at St. Nicholas of Myra Church in New York City during the annual Vision Festival, and was released in 2001 by Eremite Re ...

'' (Eremite, 2001) *'' H.Con.Res.57/Treasure Box'' (Eremite, 2003) With

*'' Slammin' the Infinite'' (Cadence Jazz, 2004) *''

Remember Now ''Remember Now'' is an album by American jazz trombonist Steve Swell, which was recorded in 2005 and released on the Polish Not Two label. It was the second release by Slammin' the Infinite, a quartet with Sabir Mateen on reeds, Matthew Heyner on b ...

'' (Not Two, 2006) *''

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'' (Not Two, 2007) *'' News from the Mystic Auricle'' (Not Two, 2008) *'' 5000 Poems'' (Not Two, 2010)

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Mateen, Sabir Avant-garde jazz musicians American jazz saxophonists American male saxophonists CIMP artists Living people 1951 births 21st-century American saxophonists 21st-century American male musicians American male jazz musicians RogueArt artists