Charles Sullivan (musician)
Kamau Muata Adilifu ( born November 8, 1944 in New York City as Charles Sullivan ) is an American jazz trumpeter and flugelhorn player.
Life and work
Kamau Muata Adilifu was taught by his uncle, trumpeter James Hubie. In the band, he was a member from 1954 to 1956 as well as 1961/62. There also began his career. From 1962 to 1967 he studied at the Manhattan School of Music, played next in theater bands and 1967 in the Donald McKayle Dance Orchestra. In the late 1960s he worked with Lionel Hampton and Ensemble in Roy Haynes ' hip.
In the early 1970s he belonged to the Count Basie Orchestra (1970), the band's Lonnie Liston Smith ( 1971), the New York Jazz Repertory Company (1973 ) and Abdullah Ibrahim Ensemble (African Space Program, 1973), the bands of Bennie Maupin (The Jewel in the Lotus 1974) and Carlos Garnett ( Black Love ), and in 1974 the Orchestra by Mel Lewis on. After he had played in 1975 at Sonny Fortune, he founded a short-lived band called Big Black Legacy; 1975 to 1980 he headed also a quartet / quintet.
In the early 1980s he worked with the Jazz Mobile Dream Band, in The George Gruntz Concert Jazz Band and 1981 in Mercer Ellington Orchestra. In 1981 his work with McCoy Tyner to hear, among other things, on his album 13th House (1981 ) or the big-band production Uptown -Downtown in 1988. In 1995 he worked with John Clark.
Swell
- Bielefeld Catalog 1985 1988
- Richard Cook & Brian Morton: The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings, 8th Edition, London, Penguin, 2006 ISBN 0-141-02327-9