The Magnificent Goldberg Posted August 26, 2007 Report Posted August 26, 2007 I'm just listening to Lou Bennett's "Now hear my meaning", recorded in Barcelona in 1992 for a one-shot Spanish company. The personnel is Lou Bennett - org Ximo Tebar - g Idris Muhammad - d Abdu Salim - sax Abdu is a beast of a player! A bit outside - rather in the way Marvin Cabell used to be - a bit, but not really beyond the moon. I've never come across him on anything else. And I thought I'd ask you lot if you know of him; and any other recordings he's made, because he's really getting to me today. MG Quote
kh1958 Posted August 26, 2007 Report Posted August 26, 2007 (edited) I've never heard of him, but he does seem to have a myspace page. It appears he lives in Spain. http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fusea...endid=157697670 Edited August 26, 2007 by kh1958 Quote
The Magnificent Goldberg Posted August 26, 2007 Author Report Posted August 26, 2007 Thanks very much. MG Quote
JSngry Posted August 26, 2007 Report Posted August 26, 2007 I see he was born in Gilmer, Tx, about 12 miles up the road from my hometown of Gladewater. Gilmer's grown zero for the annual Yamboree, a festival celebrating the yam (which is not the same as the sweet potato, they'll want you to know), the birthplace of Johnny Mathis (which they still don't commemorate in any way that I know of), and the home of on of the ugliest, virulent anti-gay rallies I've ever seen. "God wants all of you DEAD. NOW." was one of the milder sentiments offered in that neck-bulging bug-eyed scream of irrationality finally conquering even is hate that is peculiar to ignunt ass country folk who don't know any better because they don't want to know any better, so fuck'em all then, ok? The Piney Woods of East Texas is full fo folk like that, and yeah, fuck'em all. It would be interesting to know what Salim's birth name was (assuming that it was not Salim), because it is quite possible that he might still have family in the Gilmer area. I like what I heard on the MySpace page. He sounds like a less "technically proficient" Booker Ervin who doesn't miss what he don't have (and therefore can't be said to "need" it, so is anything really "missing"?). if you know what I mean. Definitely sounds like somebody of his age and his background, so hey, works for me. I hear a lot of Texas in him, and that'll always be home to/for me, so again - works for me. Given his age, time in Houston, etc. I was wondering for a quick minute if this was perhaps the elusive John Manning (as to whatever became of him, nobody in Houston that I know knows), but probably not. He sure spent a lot of time in the military, eh? Quote
The Magnificent Goldberg Posted August 27, 2007 Author Report Posted August 27, 2007 JSngry said: I see he was born in Gilmer, Tx, about 12 miles up the road from my hometown of Gladewater. Gilmer's grown zero for the annual Yamboree, a festival celebrating the yam (which is not the same as the sweet potato, they'll want you to know), the birthplace of Johnny Mathis (which they still don't commemorate in any way that I know of), and the home of on of the ugliest, virulent anti-gay rallies I've ever seen. "God wants all of you DEAD. NOW." was one of the milder sentiments offered in that neck-bulging bug-eyed scream of irrationality finally conquering even is hate that is peculiar to ignunt ass country folk who don't know any better because they don't want to know any better, so fuck'em all then, ok? The Piney Woods of East Texas is full fo folk like that, and yeah, fuck'em all. No wonder he went to live in Spain. MG Quote
JSngry Posted August 27, 2007 Report Posted August 27, 2007 Yeah, but he put in some serious military yearage first... Quote
NaturalSoul Posted August 27, 2007 Report Posted August 27, 2007 kh1958 said: I've never heard of him, but he does seem to have a myspace page. It appears he lives in Spain. http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fusea...endid=157697670 Nice!! Quote
mjazzg Posted October 5, 2021 Report Posted October 5, 2021 listening to this, from 2016, on the recommendation of a friend and decided to Google Salim only to find this old thread Looks like he's still active, very little on Discogs. His son is a piano player who's recorded for Challenge Records https://www.ladepeche.fr/2021/08/06/abdu-selim-quartet-a-lauditorium-9717246.php And your Spanish is better than mine you'll get more from tis page than the bare bones that I managed https://clasijazz.com/clasijazz-big-band-profesional-abdu-salim-music-el-sendero-de-la-luz/ Quote
Rooster_Ties Posted October 5, 2021 Report Posted October 5, 2021 (edited) A sort of mini-documentary about a project of his from 2007(?) -- almost 30 minutes total -- not in English, but what I've just skimmed of it all had subtitles... The description from the first video says... Abdu Salim has a new project: to create a Jazz Band formed by Afro-Americans living outside the U.S.A. Following all the process from Toulouse to Berlin, we know the person behind the musician, his motivations and his conflicts. The Jazz lived by Abdu Salim. Edited October 5, 2021 by Rooster_Ties Quote
Niko Posted October 5, 2021 Report Posted October 5, 2021 thanks for posting! some great people in that band he's putting together like Jesse Sharps and Fuasi Abdu Khaliq from Horace Tapscott's bands Quote
Rooster_Ties Posted October 5, 2021 Report Posted October 5, 2021 Pretty good bio of him found here. Seem to originally be from his own website (which is no longer active). http://www.jazzmusicarchives.com/artist/abdu-salim Be sure to click on the "read more" link, right after "In 1978 through 1979 he..." -- to see the rest of the text. Quote
bison ravi Posted October 5, 2021 Report Posted October 5, 2021 I saw him play in Madrid, at the Café Populart, I think, in a trio with bass and drums (Carlos "Sir Charles" González must have been the drummer). It was in the early 90's. I was just starting to listen to jazz and he absolutely blew my mind ! I remember him as very influenced by Coltrane, and with a deep, spiritual touch. And those hands ! Quote
Rooster_Ties Posted October 5, 2021 Report Posted October 5, 2021 (edited) And I'm just finding that he has a son, Daahoud Salim, who is a classical pianist (and seems to also play jazz as well, from what I'm gleaning from random Googling a few minutes ago)... https://www.challengerecords.com/artists/1462260496 https://www.challengerecords.com/products/14691058093708 From a disk of an all Erwin Schulhoff program, here's the first movement of Schulhoff's piano concerto. (And me likey Schulhoff quite a bit too.) EDIT: Yeah, his kid's done/doing jazz too... Edited October 5, 2021 by Rooster_Ties Quote
The Magnificent Goldberg Posted October 5, 2021 Author Report Posted October 5, 2021 He was in Lou Bennetts band in Barcelona for this album in 1992. Idris Muhammad was in the band, too, If I recollect aright. Very nice. MG Quote
Niko Posted October 5, 2021 Report Posted October 5, 2021 the second half of the second video has some footage of Salim with Bennett... Quote
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