Sabir Mateen

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Sabir Mateen

, *1951 US, Philadelphia
Musician / Composer of Jazz

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.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

Instruments

Clarinet
Tenor sax
Flute
Alto sax
Saxophone

Genres

Jazz
Electronic
Rock

Band Members

Discography

Title	Artist	Year	Type
Live at Big Lebowski	Sabir Mateen, Davide Merlino	2018	Album
The Gathering Of The Angels	Sabir Mateen	2017	Album
Collective Four	Sabir Mateen, Conrad Bauer, Mark Tokar, Klaus Kugel	2016	Album
Joys!	Sabir Mateen, William Simone	2016	Album
The Joy Of Atonal Sax (And Other Delights)	The Chonto / Tamura Sonic Insurgency with Sabir Mateen	2014	Album
apparizione #4	Sabir Mateen	2014	Album
The uneXPected	Ferrian/Pissavini/Quattrini Trio feat. Sabir Mateen	2013	Album
Infinite Flowers	Sabir Mateen, Sirone, Andrew Barker	2013	Album
The Sabir Mateen Jubilee Ensemble	Sabir Mateen	2012	Album
Sound Gathering	Sabir Mateen / Frode Gjerstad featuring Steve Swell	2010	Album
Sama	Sabir Mateen / Matthew Shipp	2009	Album
Urdla XXX	Sabir Mateen	2008	Album
Dharma	William Hooker + Sabir Mateen	2007	Album
Waves	William Hooker, Daniel Carter, Sabir Mateen, Ras Moshe, Jeffrey Shurdut	2005	Album
Good Question	Frode Gjerstad / Sabir Mateen	2005	Album
Not On Earth... In Your Soul!	Sabir Mateen - Daniel Carter - Andrew Barker	2005	Album
Happy Birthday Marshall!	Marshall Allen, Danny Ray Thompson, Sabir Mateen, Jackson Krall, Adam Lane, Nick Gianni, Jeffrey Shurdut	2005	Album
A Cost Effective Orchestra For The American Way Of Life	Jeffrey Shurdut, Steve Swell, Will Connell, Daniel Carter, Sabir Mateen	2004	Album
Seeing Colors	Sabir Mateen	2004	Album
Screams Of Truth Need Cries Of Compassion	Sabir Mateen, Jeffrey Shurdut	2003	Album
Up In The Mother	Jeffrey Shurdut, Sabir Mateen	2003	Album
The Dream Of A Ridiculous Man	Jeffrey Shurdut, Bern Nix, Sabir Mateen	2003	Album
Brothers Together	Hamid Drake & Sabir Mateen	2002	Album
Sun Xing	Sabir Mateen, Ben Karetnick	2001	Album
Getting Away With Murder	Tom Bruno & Sabir Mateen	1998	Album
We Are Not At The Opera	Sunny Murray w/ Sabir Mateen	1998	Album
Red Sprites & Blue Jets	Marc Edwards Trio Featuring Sabir Mateen, Hilliard Greene	1997	Album
Resonance	Daniel Carter / Randall Colbourne / Paul Flaherty / Raphe Malik / Sabir Mateen	1997	Album
Breathing Together	One World Ensemble - Daniel Carter, Sabir Mateen, Yuko Fujiyama, Susie Ibarra, Wilber Morris	1997	Album
Light Comes From The Front	Sabir Mateen, Matthew Heyner, David Nuss		Album

External Links

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Acknowledgements

To all the music fans that are contributing on Discogs, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia. Thanks to Franz Flückiger for providing Storygram used to visualize band membership.