Rashied Ali, Rest In Peace

[mitchum]

Rashied Ali, free-jazz drummer, dies in NYC at 76
(AP)
NEW YORK — Free-jazz drummer and John Coltrane sideman Rashied Ali has died in New York. He was 76.

His wife, Patricia Ali, says he died Wednesday afternoon at Bellevue Hospital of a blood clot in his lung.

Ali joined John Coltrane's group in the mid-1960s during the saxophonist's late period of avant-garde jazz experimentation.

He recorded with Coltrane on the 1965 album "Meditations" and on "Interstellar Space" in 1967.

After Coltrane died in 1967, Ali toured Europe before returning to New York.

He ran the jazz club Ali's Alley before it closed in 1979 and continued to perform and record until his death.

Ali was born Robert Patterson on July 1, 1933, to a musical family in Philadelphia, Pa.

[MilesColtrane]

1. .

[mitchum]

2. While I have been known to say that Ali, not Yoko Ono, was responsible...

for breaking up the greatest band in the world, I am still greatly saddened by this news.

[MilesColtrane]

6. His role in history is secure.

It is sad to see the few remaining mortal connections to Trane drop away. (I hope McCoy is doing well.)

I'm sure Rashied will have the best travelin' music ever on his last journey.

[merh]

3. If you believe in forever . . .

just imagine the jam sessions that will be happening in heaven now that Ali and Paul will be joining in.

[mitchum]

4. True, but Elvin Jones is probably getting pretty irritated already...

"Man, hold it down, Ali!"

[Starbucks Anarchist]

5. I'm going to play "Interstellar Space" tonight.

:thumbsup: