Sabir Mateen
Sabir Mateen (born April 16, 1951) is an American musician and composer from Philadelphia. His musical style is primarily avant-garde jazz. He plays tenor and alto saxophone, B♭ and alto clarinet, and flute. As a young man, Mateen was originally a percussionist, and he started playing flute as a teenager. From there he moved to alto and then tenor saxophone. He started out playing rhythm and blues in the early 1970s which led him to the tenor saxophone chair of the Horace Tapscott Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra. He has performed or recorded with musicians including Cecil Taylor, Sunny Murray, William Parker, Alan Silva, Butch and Wilber Morris, Raphe Malik, Steve Swell, Roy Campbell, Jr., Matthew Shipp, Marc Edwards, Jemeel Moondoc, William Hooker, Henry Grimes, Rashid Bakr, and Hamid Drake. He is a member of the band TEST, with Daniel Carter.
Genre: free-jazz, avant-garde-jazz, modern-free-jazz
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Top Tracks
- Creation, Pt. 1
- New Life Dance
- Knowing Oneself
- Of Mind & Spirit
- Brother’s Together
- Children of the Creator
- Sentimentally
- Prophecies Come To Pass
- Everyone’s Got Something To Say
- The Beauty Within
- Sekasso Blues
- Til' the Next Time (feat. Steve Swell)
- Sound Gathering (feat. Steve Swell)
- Talkin' With David (feat. Steve Swell)
- After the Break (feat. Steve Swell)
- Another Beginning (feat. Steve Swell)
- Air Conditioning (feat. Steve Swell)
- Sama 8
- Sama 7
- Sama 6
Albums (10)
- Joy and Sorrow (2022)
- Creation (2020)
- Creation, Pt. 1 (2020)
- Survival Situation (2020)
- Joys! (2016)
- Holidays in Siena (2011)
- SAMA (2010)
- Sound Gathering (2010)
- Prophecies Come To Pass (1970)
- Brothers Together (1970)
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