Drummers - Rashied Ali
Rashied Ali (born Robert Patterson on 1 July 1935 in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is a jazz drummer best known for playing
with John Coltrane in the last years of Coltrane's life. His brother,
Muhammad Ali, is also a drummer, who played with Albert Ayler, among
others. More recently, Ali has played with Sonny Fortune.
Ali has also recorded or performed with Pharoah Sanders, Alice Coltrane,
James Blood Ulmer and many others.
Among his credits is the last recorded work of John Coltrane's life, the
Olatunji Concert and Interstellar Space an album of duets with Coltrane,
recorded earlier in 1967.
Ali also briefly formed a non-jazz project called Purple Trap with
Japanese experimental guitarist Keiji Haino and jazz-fusion bassist Bill
Laswell. Their double CD album, Decided...Already the Motionless Heart
of Tranquility, Tangling the Prayer Called "I", was released on John
Zorn's Tzadik label in March of 1999.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashied_Ali
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