Sabir Mateen

Sabir Mateen (born April 16, 1951) is a musician and composer from Philadelphia who plays primarily in the avant-garde jazz idiom. He plays tenor and alto saxophone, B♭ and alto clarinet, and flute.

Contents

• Sabir Mateens Omni Sound Arts For Art Evolving Music NYC June 16 2014
• Sparks sabir mateen lorenzo tamberi nicola di caprio live at vinile december 2014
• As leaderco leader
• As sideman
• References

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 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, Hamid Drake among others. He also is a member of the band TEST, with Daniel Carter.

As leader/co-leader

Tom Bruno, Sabir Mateen: Gettin' Away with Murder (Eremite, 1995)

One World Ensemble: Breathing Together (Freedom, 1995)

Divine Mad Love (Eremite, 1998)

Sunny Murray w/ Sabir Mateen: We Are Not At The Opera (Eremite, 1998)

Hamid Drake & Sabir Mateen: Brothers Together (Eremite, 2000)

Sabir Mateen, Ben Karetnick: Sun Xing (JMZ, 2001)

Secrets of When (Bleu Regard, 2001)

Frode Gjerstad / Sabir Mateen: Good Question (FMR, 2005)

Sabir Mateen - Daniel Carter - Andrew Barker - Not On Earth ... In Your Soul! (Qbico, 2005)

Other Places, Other Spaces (Nu Bop, 2005)

Prophecies Come To Pass (577 Records, 2006)

William Hooker / Sabir Mateen "Dharma" (KMB Jazz, 2007)

Urdla XXX (Not Two, 2010)

Sabir Mateen / Matthew Shipp: SAMA (Not Two, 2010)

Sabir Mateen / Frode Gjerstad featuring Steve Swell: Sound Gathering (Not Two, 2010)

Sabir Mateen / Matthew Shipp: SaMa Live in Moscow (SoLyd, 2011)

The Sabir Mateen Jubilee Ensemble (Not Two, 2013)

Blood Trio: Understory (Not Two, 2013)

As sideman

With Marc Edwards

Red Sprite & Blue Jets (CIMP, 1997)

With William Hooker

Yearn for Certainty (Engine Records, 2010)

With Raphe Malik

ConSequences (Eremite, 1999)

Looking East: A Suite in Three Parts (Boxholder, 2001)

With William Parker

Spontaneous (Splasc(H), 2002)

For Percy Heath (Victo, 2005)

With Matthew Shipp

Our Lady of the Flowers (RogueArt, 2015)

With Steve Swell

Slammin' the Infinite (Cadence Jazz, 2004)

Remember Now (Not Two, 2006)

Live @ the Vision Festival (Not Two, 2007)

News from the Mystic Auricle (Not Two, 2008)

5000 Poems (Not Two, 2010)