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Rashied Ali
Philadelphia, United States
Rashied Ali is credited on 85 albums across 522 pressings tracked on Gatefold, active 1965–2026 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
85
Albums
522
Pressings
7
Decades active
168
In collections
Biography
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American free jazz and avant-garde jazz drummer, born Robert Patterson on July 1st, 1935 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, moved to New York in 1963; brother of jazz drummers Muhammad Ali and. Passed away August 12th, 2009.
He ran the venue Ali's Alley, opened 1973, closed 1979, located in Soho, 77 Greene St., N.Y.C. 10012 New York. At the same location he ran Studio 77, NYC. He also founded Survival Records.
Starting off as a pianist he eventually took up the drums, via trumpet and trombone.(wikipedia).
Bio from Discogs
Credited work
85 albums · 522 pressings · active 1965–2026
- Performance · 655
- Other credits · 36
- Engineering · 8
- Production · 3
Studios: Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey · Village Vanguard · The Village Recorder · Coltrane Records
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.

Journey In Satchidananda
1971

Meditations
1966

Universal Consciousness
1971

A Monastic Trio
1968

Live At The Village Vanguard Again!
1966

Interstellar Space
1974

Concert In Japan
1973

The Best Of John Coltrane - His Greatest Years
1970

Cosmic Music
1968

Expression
1967

Infinity
1972

Orgasm
1969

The Stone
2023

Offering: Live At Temple University
2014

The Olatunji Concert: The Last Live Recording
2001

Blue Break Beats Volume Three
1996

The Best Of John Coltrane - His Greatest Years, Vol. 2
1972

On This Night
1965

Mystic Journey
2010

Ken Burns Jazz
2000

Live In Japan
1991

Intensive Care
1984

The Mastery Of John Coltrane / Vol. III "Jupiter Variation"
1978

Duo Exchange
1973
Frequent collaborators
- John Coltrane
- Alice Coltrane
- Various
- Marion Brown Quartet
- Rudolph Grey
- Rashied Ali Quartet
- Phalanx (4)
- Joe Lee Wilson
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