Sabir Mateen

Sabir Mateen, moers festival 2008
Sabir Mateen playing flute with drummer Steve Noble

Sabir Mateen (born April 16, 1951) is a musician and composer from Philadelphia who plays primarily in the avant-garde jazz idiom. He plays tenor and alto saxophone, B♭ and alto clarinet, and flute.

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 rhythm and blues in the early 1970s which led him to the tenor saxophone chair of the Horace Tapscott Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra. He has performed or recorded with Cecil Taylor, Sunny Murray, William Parker, Alan Silva, Butch and Wilber Morris, Raphe Malik, Steve Swell, Roy Campbell, Jr., Matthew Shipp, Marc Edwards, Jemeel Moondoc, William Hooker, Henry Grimes, Rashid Bakr, Hamid Drake[1] among others. He also is a member of the band TEST, with Daniel Carter.[2]

Discography

As leader/co-leader

As sideman

With Marc Edwards

With William Hooker

With Raphe Malik

With William Parker

With Matthew Shipp

With Steve Swell

References

  1. Taylor, Derek (2002-12-04). "Brothers Together". All About Jazz. Retrieved 2010-09-20.
  2. Huey, Steve. "Sabir Mateen: Biography". Allmusic. Retrieved 2010-09-20.

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