A.K. SALIM
Hard Bop / African Fusion • United States
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Born Albert Atkinson in 1922, the alto saxophonist and clarinetist converted to Islam in the 1940s and changed his name. Salim gave up playing in 1943 following a jaw injury and focused on arranging. He wrote and ghostwrote for many of the major big bands of the 1940s, including Lucky Millinder , Jimmie Lunceford and Lionel Hampton. Salim had a knack for weaving together powerful charts with multiple melody lines that built to swinging crescendos. He also could pen with a light, lyrical touch, offering up spring-loaded melodies framed by modern harmonies, creating a sound favored by Quincy Jones and Gigi Gryce.
Perhaps matched only by Chico O'Farrill, Salim could write as effortlessly and as authentically for jazz bands as he could for the best Latin mambo orchestras of the era. For example, Salim arranged Illinois Jacquet's Boot 'em Up and Count Basie's Blee Blop Blues as well as Tito Puente's
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