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Background information | |
Birth name | Leonard Graham |
Born | St. Petersburg, Florida, United States | August 7, 1923
Died | July 23, 2002 St. Petersburg, Florida | (aged 78)
Genres | Bop Hard bop |
Occupation(s) | Trumpeter |
Instrument | Trumpet |
Labels | Prestige, Blue Note, Atlantic, Verve, others |
Idrees Sulieman (August 7, 1923 – July 23, 2002)[1] was an American bop and hard bop trumpeter.[2]
Biography
[edit]He was born Leonard Graham in St. Petersburg, Florida, United States,[3] later changing his name to Idrees Sulieman, after converting to Islam.[4] He studied at the Boston Conservatory, and gained early experience playing with the Carolina Cotton Pickers and the wartime Earl Hines Orchestra (1943–1944).[3]
On October 15, 1947, he played on Thelonious Monk's first recording for Blue Note Records. Sulieman was closely associated with Mary Lou Williams and for a time and had stints with Cab Calloway, John Coltrane, Count Basie, and Lionel Hampton.[3] Sulieman recorded with Coleman Hawkins (1957) and gigged with Randy Weston (1958–1959), in addition to appearing in many other situations.[3]
He toured Europe in 1961 with Oscar Dennard, and stayed, settling in Stockholm at first, and then moved to Copenhagen in 1964. A soloist with the Kenny Clarke/Francy Boland Big Band from the mid-1960s through 1973, Sulieman frequently worked with radio orchestras.[3] His recordings as a leader were for Swedish Columbia (1964) and SteepleChase (1976 and 1985). In 1985, he was among the performers on Miles Davis' album, Aura, which was not released until 1989.[5] Sulieman's career slowed down considerably in the 1990s.[1]
Death
[edit]He died of bladder cancer on July 23, 2002, at St. Anthony's Hospital in St. Petersburg, Florida, at the age of 78.[1]
Discography
[edit]As leader
[edit]- Three Trumpets (Prestige, 1957) with Donald Byrd and Art Farmer
- Interplay for 2 Trumpets and 2 Tenors (Prestige, 1957) with John Coltrane, Bobby Jaspar and Webster Young
- Roots (New Jazz, 1957) with the Prestige All Stars
- Americans in Europe (Impulse!, 1963) with Various Artists
- The Camel (Columbia, 1964) with Jamila Sulieman
- Now Is the Time (SteepleChase, 1976) with Cedar Walton, Sam Jones, Billy Higgins
- Bird's Grass (SteepleChase, 1976 [1985]) with Horace Parlan, Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Kenny Clarke
- Groovin' (SteepleChase, 1985) with Horace Parlan
As sideman
[edit]With Gene Ammons
- Jammin' in Hi Fi with Gene Ammons (Prestige, 1957)
- Blue Gene (Prestige, 1958)
With Art Blakey
- Art Blakey Big Band (Bethlehem, 1957)
With Clifford Brown
- Memorial (Prestige, 1953)
With Teddy Charles
- Coolin' (New Jazz, 1957)
With the Kenny Clarke/Francy Boland Big Band
- Handle with Care (Atlantic, 1963)
- Now Hear Our Meanin' (Columbia, 1963 [1965])
- Sax No End (SABA, 1967)
- Out of the Folk Bag (Columbia, 1967)
- 17 Men and Their Music (Campi, 1967)
- All Smiles (MPS, 1968)
- Faces (MPS, 1968)
- Latin Kaleidoscope (MPS, 1968)
- Fellini 712 (MPS, 1969)
- All Blues (MPS, 1969)
- More Smiles (MPS, 1969)
- Clarke Boland Big Band en Concert avec Europe 1 (Tréma, 1969 [1992])
With Don Byas / Bud Powell
- A Tribute To Cannonball (Columbia 1962)
With Miles Davis
- Aura (Columbia, 1985)
With Eric Dolphy
- Stockholm Sessions (Enja, 1961)
With Tommy Flanagan
- The Cats (New Jazz, 1957)
With Dexter Gordon
- More Than You Know (SteepleChase, 1975)
With Friedrich Gulda
- Friedrich Gulda at Birdland (RCA Victor, 1957)
- A Man of Letters (Decca, 1957)
With Coleman Hawkins
- The Hawk Flies High (Riverside, 1957)
With Joe Henderson
- Big Band (Verve, 1992–96)
With Bobby Jaspar
- Bobby Jaspar (Riverside, 1957)
With Thad Jones
- Live at the Montmartre: A Good Time Was Had by All (Storyville, 1978)
With Carmen McRae
- November Girl (Black Lion, 1970)
With Thelonious Monk
- Genius of Modern Music, Vol. 1 (Blue Note, 1947)
With Horace Parlan
- Arrival (SteepleChase, 1973)
With Max Roach
- The Max Roach Quartet featuring Hank Mobley (Debut, 1953)
With Sahib Shihab
- Companionship (Vogue Schallplatten, 1964-70 [1971])
With Mal Waldron
With Randy Weston
- Little Niles (United Artists, 1958)
- Spirits of Our Ancestors (Verve, 1991)
With Ernie Wilkins
- Top Brass (Savoy, 1955)
With Lester Young
- Masters of Jazz (Storyville, 1951–56)
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Idrees Sulieman | Biography & History". AllMusic. Retrieved August 2, 2021.
- ^ "Idrees Sulieman". Jazzhouse.org. Retrieved April 4, 2016.
- ^ a b c d e Colin Larkin, ed. (1992). The Guinness Who's Who of Jazz (First ed.). Guinness Publishing. p. 379. ISBN 0-85112-580-8.
- ^ "Obscure Trumpet Masters #9 – Idrees Sulieman". Curtjazz.com. March 21, 2011. Retrieved April 4, 2016.
- ^ "Aura - Miles Davis | Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved August 2, 2021.
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