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Drummer Muhammed Ali Interviewed at AAJ

Source: All About Jazz
July 7, 2010
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Though not as well known as his brother, drummer

Rashied Ali

drums
1935 - 2009

" data-original-title="" title="">Rashied Ali (1935-2009), Muhammad Ali spent the 1970s as one of the busiest drummers in free jazz, primarily working in a cooperative Paris-based quartet with saxophonist

Frank Wright

saxophone, tenor
1935 - 1990

" data-original-title="" title="">Frank Wright, pianist

Bobby Few

piano
1935 - 2021

" data-original-title="" title="">Bobby Few and bassist

Alan Silva

bass, acoustic
b.1939

" data-original-title="" title="">Alan Silva, and known as the Center of the World Quartet. Born in Philadelphia in 1936 as Raymond Patterson, Ali has worked with many of the preeminent names in the jazz avant-garde, including saxophonists

John Coltrane

saxophone
1926 - 1967

" data-original-title="" title="">John Coltrane,

Albert Ayler

saxophone, tenor
1936 - 1970

" data-original-title="" title="">Albert Ayler,

Marion Brown

saxophone, alto
1931 - 2010

" data-original-title="" title="">Marion Brown,

Byard Lancaster

saxophone
1942 - 2012

" data-original-title="" title="">Byard Lancaster,

Noah Howard

saxophone, alto
1943 - 2010

" data-original-title="" title="">Noah Howard,

Archie Shepp

saxophone, tenor
b.1937

" data-original-title="" title="">Archie Shepp, pianists

Cecil Taylor

piano
1929 - 2018

" data-original-title="" title="">Cecil Taylor and

Dave Burrell

piano
b.1940

" data-original-title="" title="">Dave Burrell, trumpeters Butch Morris and

Don Cherry

trumpet
1936 - 1995

" data-original-title="" title="">Don Cherry, and bassist

William Parker

bass
b.1952

" data-original-title="" title="">William Parker. Though after the Center of the World dissolved in 1984, Ali mostly retired from regular performance, he is slowly but surely reasserting his presence on the scene.

AAJ Contributor Clifford Allen spoke at length with Ali, about a career spent in the company of better-knowns including