Idris Muhammad

Idris Muhammad ( born November 13, 1939 in New Orleans, Louisiana as Leo Morris) is an American jazz drummer.

Life

Muhammad plays since the age of sixteen drums, first in local dance bands. He also took with Fats Domino ( Blueberry Hill ) and then accompanied Larry Williams, Lloyd Price, Sam Cooke, Jerry Butler and other R & B and soul musician; with Lou Donaldson he played with the impressions. Since 1967 he worked in the soul-jazz formations of Gene Ammons, George Benson, Charles Earland (Black Talk), Grant Green and Charles Kynard and was involved in the Broadway productions of Hair as well as from 1970 the house drummer for the Prestige label. During this time he placed two major albums under his own name before (Black Rhythm Revolution in 1970, Peace and Rhythm 1971). After he received the mid-1970s two fusion albums for Creed Taylor's CTI label (Power of Soul and House of the Risung Sun ) was built around 1980 for the avant-garde label Theresa Album Kabsha with George Coleman, Pharoah Sanders and Ray Drummond; 1998 saw the Improviations Project Right Now with Gary Bartz, George Coleman, Joe Lovano and Curtis Lundy.

From 1973 he was a member of the Big Band by Hank Crawford. He also worked in the bands of Harold Mabern, Johnny Griffin, George Coleman, John Hicks and Pharoah Sanders and also went with Emerson, Lake & Palmer and Roberta Flack on tour. In the late 1970s Muhammad also tried in the disco genre and took albums like Boogie to the Top of this style on. Mid-1980s, he worked with Larry Goldings on the Queen Elizabeth 2 and was involved in the recording of Hamiet Bluietts album Live at Carlos. Muhammad also worked on recordings by Randy Weston, Eric Alexander (Solid, 1998), John Hicks and the Keystone Trio, Andrew Hill (Grass Roots ), Lou Donaldson, Joe Lovano / Greg Osby, Tete Montoliu, David Murray ( Fast Life, 1993 ), Houston Person, Sonny Rollins and Sonny Stitt with. Since 1995 he has worked regularly with Ahmad Jamal and worked with Coleman on his album A L' Olympia ( 2000).

Like other black jazz musicians in the 1960s, Muhammad converted to Islam and changed his name. In 1966, he married Dolores " LaLa " Brooks, a former member of the U.S. Girls singing group The Crystals. They also came to Islam and took the name Sakinah Muhammad. Together with her, Idris Muhammad has two sons and two daughters; They were divorced in 1999.

Disco Graphical Notes

  • Power of Soul (CTI Records, 1974) with Randy Brecker, Grover Washington Jr., Bob James, Joe Beck, Gary Child, Ralph McDonald
  • House of the Rising Sun (CTI, 1976)
  • Kabsha ( Evidence, 1980) with George Coleman, Pharoah Sanders, Ray Drummond
  • My Turn ( Lipstick, 1993)
  • Right Now ( Cannonball 1998) with Gary Bartz, George Coleman, Joe Lovano, Curtis Lundy

Lexigrafische Notes

  • Ian Carr, Digby Fairweather, Brian Priestley: Jazz Rough Guide. Metzler, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-476-01584- X.
  • Wolf Kampmann: Reclam Jazz Encyclopedia. Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-15-010528-5.
  • Martin Kunzler: Jazz Encyclopedia Vol 1 Reinbek 2002, ISBN 3-499-16512-0.
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