Idrees Sulieman

Dawud ibn Idrees Sulieman, actually Leonard Graham ( born August 7, 1923 in Saint Petersburg, Florida; † July 23, 2002 in Saint Petersburg, Florida ) was an American jazz trumpeter and flugelhorn player.

His fame owes the bebop veteran Idrees Sulieman participation in the first Blue Note Records session of Thelonious Monk in 1947.

Life and work

Sulieman studied at the Boston Conservatory and first worked with local orchestras, later in the bands of Mercer Ellington, Cab Calloway, Earl Hines (1943 /44), Count Basie, Lionel Hampton, Erskine Hawkins, Dizzy Gillespie and Illinois Jacquet. In 1956 he was a member of the American jazz group by Friedrich Gulda; 1958/59 he played with Randy Weston. Since then he has worked outside the United States, in Casablanca, Paris, in 1961 in Sweden ( where he was on tour with pianist Oscar Dennard ) and from 1964, in Copenhagen. During this time he took on plates with Gene Ammons, Teddy Charles, Coleman Hawkins, Ella Fitzgerald, André Hodeir, Thelonious Monk, Mal Waldron, Louis Jordan, Red Mitchell and the Clarke - Boland Big Band. In the latter, he was from the mid 1960s until 1973. Moreover, he often played on radio big bands.

Discography (selection)

As a leader

  • Coolin ' (New Jazz, 1957)
  • Now Is the Time ( Steeplechase, 1976) with Cedar Walton, Sam Jones, Billy Higgins
  • Bird's Grass ( Steeplechase, 1976) Horace Parlan with Niels -Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Kenny Clarke
  • Groovin ' ( Steeplechase, 1985) Horace Parlan with

As a sideman

  • Thelonious Monk: Genius of Modern Music, Vol 1 ( Blue Note, 1947-48 )
  • Lester Young: Masters of Jazz ( Storyville, 1951-56 )
  • Clifford Brown Memorial ( Blue Note, 1953)
  • Mal Waldron: Mal - 1 ( Prestige, 1956)
  • Tommy Flanagan: The Cats ( New Jazz 1957) with John Coltrane and Kenny Burrell
  • Coleman Hawkins: The Hawk Flies High ( Riverside, 1957)
  • Bobby Jaspar Bobby Jaspar ( Riverside, 1957)
  • Eric Dolphy Stockholm Sessions ( Enja, 1961)
  • Horace Parlan: Arrival ( Steeplechase, 1973)
  • Dexter Gordon: More Than You Know ( Steeplechase, 1975)
  • Miles Davis: Aura (Columbia Records, 1985)
  • Randy Weston: The Spirits of Our Ancestors ( Verve, 1991)
  • Joe Henderson Big Band ( Verve, 1992-96 )

Lexical entry

  • Martin Kunzler: jazz lexicon. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1988
  • Bielefeld Catalog Jazz, 2001
  • Richard Cook & Brian Morton: The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD. 6th Edition, Penguin, London, 2002. ISBN 0-14-017949-6

Comments

  • Jazz trumpeter
  • American musician
  • Born in 1923
  • Died in 2002
  • Man
St. Petersburg, Florida Kenny Clarke/Francy Boland Big Band Prestige Records SteepleChase Records Sam Jones (musician) Storyville Records Enja Records Thad Jones Aura (Miles-Davis-Album) Verve Records Richard Cook (journalist) Brian Morton (Scottish writer) Integrated Authority File
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