Rashied Ali

The multidirectional drummer

by Piotr Michalowski

posted 10/1/2004

Many of today's younger improvisers look back with awe to the 1960s and early 1970s, when political, social, and cultural upheavals in American life were accompanied by radical challenges to the jazz tradition. Most of the musical pioneers of those days are gone, but a few remain with us, including the great drummer Rashied Ali.

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