Sabir Mateen

Sabir Mateen Is A Tenor Alto Saxophonist Bb Clarinetist Alto Clarinetist Flutist Composer Sabir Mateen Born In Philadelphia Has Been A Musician Most Of His Life. Starting In The Philadelphia Area As A Percussionist He Started Playing Flute As A Teenager.Gradually Evoling From Alto To Tenor Saxophone He Has Been Through A Number Of Musical Transformations. He Started Out Playing Rhythm And Blues In The Early '70s Which Led Him To The Tenor Saxophone Chair Of The Horace Tapscott Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra. From There He Has Or Is Performing With Cecil Taylor Sunny Murray William Parker Alan Silva Butch & Wilber Morris Raphe Malik Steve Swell Mark Whitecage Roy Campbell Matthew Shipp Marc Edwards Jemeel Moondoc William Hooker Henry Grimes Rashid Bakr Kali Fasteau And Numerous Others. He Also Is A Member Of The Cooperative Band TEST. Sabir Also Performs With Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra William Parker's Inside The Music Of Curtis Mayfield Earth People The Downtown Horns And The East 3rd Street Ensemble. Copied From Http //en.Wikipedia.Org/wiki/Sabir_Mateen read less