Artist: Ahmed Abdul-Malik
Album: Four Classic Albums
Genre: World Fusion, Hard Bop
Label: Avid Jazz
Released: 2017
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue)
Tracklist:
- CD 1:
- Ya Annas (Oh People) (11:15)
- Isma'a (Listen) (9:14)
- El Haris (Anxious) (11:32)
- Farah' Alaiyna (Joy Upon Us) (7:02)
Ahmed Abdul-Malik - East Meets West (1959) - E-Lail (The Night) (4:22)
- La Ibky (Don't Cry) (4:59)
- Takseem (Solo) (5:14)
- Searchin' (4:06)
- Isma'a (Listen) (4:18)
- Rooh (The Soul) (3:44)
- Mahawara (The Eagle) (4:16)
- El Ghada (The Jungle) (3:06)
Ahmed Abdul-Malik - Jazz Sahara (1958)
- CD 2:
- Nights on Saturn (7:32)
- The Hustlers (5:32)
- Oud Blues (4:08)
- La Ibkey (5:51)
- Don't Blame Me (7:26)
- Hannibal's Carnivals (4:38)
Ahmed Abdul-Malik - Sounds of Africa (1962) - Wakida Hena (3:52)
- African Bossa Nova (5:58)
- Nadusilma (3:56)
- Out of Nowhere (4:59)
- Communication (9:43)
- Suffering (5:12)
Ahmed Abdul-Malik - The Music of Ahmed Abdul-Malik (1961)
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Bassist Ahmed Abdul-Malik was best known for his work as a sideman for Thelonious Monk, but he also took some time to release some of his own material that reveals a different side of the bopper. These four albums from 1958-62 are similar to Yusef Lateef’s Easter Sounds sessions in that they mix music from North Africa with 52nd Street. Malik plays bass and oud with Johnny Griffin and various Middle Eastern musicians for a handful of stretched out Moroccan jams, while a ’59 meeting with boppers Griffin, Lee Morgan, Benny Golson and Jerome Richards conjure up themes from a Marrakech market. Tommy Turrentine and Eric Dixon mix blues and Crescent sounds in a ’61 recording, with the most jazz friendly session occurring in 1962 as African drums and bopping horns mix on “Out of Nowhere” and “African Bossa Nova.” Genre defying!