Ahmed Abdul-Malik was people of the initially musicians to non-Western mellifluous elements into jazz. In combining to being a inflexible bop bassist of some distinction, he also played the oud, a double-stringed, unfretted Middle Eastern lute, played with a plectrum. Abdul-Malik recorded on the what-d'you-call-it in the '50s with Johnny Griffin and in 1961 with John Coltrane, contributing to a specific of the distinct albums that resulted from the latter's Live at the Village Vanguard sessions.
Abdul-Malik was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY. In his twenties and thirties, he worked as a bassist with Art Blakey, Randy Weston, and Thelonious Monk, amongst others. He played the oud on a tour of South America under the aegis of the U.S. State Department, and performed at harmonious of the before important African jazz festivals in Morocco in 1972. Beginning in 1970, he taught at New York University and later, Brooklyn College. In 1984, he received BMI's Pioneer in Jazz Award in acceptance of his work in melding Middle Eastern musics and jazz.
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