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American musician and composer
Musical artist
Sabir Mateen (born April 16, 1951) is an American musician and composer from
Philadelphia. His musical style is primarily
avant-garde jazz. 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 musicians including
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, and
Hamid Drake.
[1] He is a member of the band
TEST, with
Daniel Carter.
[2]
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
Hamid Drake
With
Marc Edwards
- Red Sprite & Blue Jets (CIMP, 1997)
With
William Hooker
- Yearn for Certainty (Engine Records, 2010)
With
Raphe Malik
With
William Parker
With
Samo Salamon
- Joy and Sorrow (Klopotec Records, 2022)
With
Matthew Shipp
With
Alan Silva
With
Steve Swell
With Earth People
- Waking The Living (Undivided Vision Records, 2001)
- Simple...Ins't It?? (Undivided Vision Records, 2003)
- Sky Readers (Undivided Vision Records, 2003)
- Now Is Rising (Undivided Vision Records, 2005)
- Bang! (Undivided Vision Records, 2007)
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