Jazz Articles about Sabir Mateen

Sabir Mateen - Daniel Carter: Sound on a Sunday

by AAJ Italy Staff
April 22, 2007

Registrato a Roma nell’aprile del 2004 durante il festival “New York Is Now!", il quinto capitolo della serie curata da Pino Saulo varca i confini nazionali presentando il duo composto da Sabir Mateen e Daniel Carter. Polistrumentisti straordinariamente eclettici e prolifici (per l’occasione si cimentano con un numero impressionante di strumenti: clarinetto, contralto, tenore, flauto, pianoforte, batteria e tromba), i due frequentano la scena free newyorchese da quasi un trentennio, condividendo esperienze e numerosissimi progetti (entrambi sono passati nella fila ...

Sabir Mateen: Prophecies Come to Pass

by Jeff Stockton
October 20, 2006

The Shapes, Textures and Sound Ensemble is a quintessential downtown New York jazz group in the tradition of Other Dimensions in Music and Test--as intense and impassioned as music honed on the street should be: tough, but coherent and highly skilled. Led by veteran reedman Sabir Mateen on alto, tenor, flute and clarinets, none of the players in the Ensemble are more than a degree or two outside of the wide shadow cast by William Parker's Little Huey Creative Orchestra--and ...

Sabir Mateen: Prophecies Come To Pass

by Troy Collins
September 21, 2006

On Prophecies Come To Pass, saxophonist Sabir Mateen's Shapes, Textures, and Sound Ensemble delivers a rousing program of classic free jazz that rarely relents in its intensity. Recorded live in Brooklyn, this album captures the group at its rapturous best. Dedicated to late trumpeter Raphe Malik, the ensemble pushes its post-Ayler dynamics to the heavens.

Multi-instrumentalist Mateen coaxes an array of sounds from his many horns; his alto is light and buoyant, with an assertive edge; his raucous ...

Sabir Mateen: Prophecies Come to Pass

by Florence Wetzel
July 12, 2006

Prophecies Come to Pass is the debut recording of Sabir Mateen's compositions by his group The Shapes, Textures, and Sound Ensemble. Recorded live in Brooklyn in September 2005, the CD was edited by Mateen and Swell and mastered under Mateen's direction. It's dedicated to the late great Raphe Malik, who at one time played with the group.

The ensemble is composed of an impressive roster of creative musicians: Mateen on saxophones, flute, and clarinets; Matt Lavelle on trumpet, ...

Earth People: Now is Rising

by Florence Wetzel
October 18, 2005

It's time to welcome another offering from Earth People, one of the most innovative and exciting groups on today's avant-garde scene. The group excels once again with the absolutely fresh Now is Rising, a soulful amalgam of sound that showcases its versatility and formidable gifts. This incarnation includes Andre Martinez on drums and percussion, Jason Candler on alto sax and guitar, Doug Principato on guitar, vocals and keyboards, Francois Grillot on contrabass, Mark Hennen on piano, Sabir Mateen on alto, ...

Earth People: Simple... Isn't It?

by Rex Butters
June 1, 2004

Characterizing themselves as “the psychedelic free music experience,” Earth People formed in 2001 after performing together in what would have been a one-time-only TV appearance. In addition to a core of André Martinez, Doug Principato, and Jason Chandler, the band also includes a who’s who of New York musicians, including Karen Borca, Daniel Carter, Sabir Mateen, Mark Hennen, and Francois Grillot. Vocalist M brings a flexible six-octave range that finds its way through thorny passages like smoke. Reed rioteers Carter, ...

Earth People: Sky Readers

by Florence Wetzel
January 19, 2004

If the cold weather is keeping you away from the clubs, you can still experience the excitement of a live performance with Sky Readers. The disc captures the art of improvisation, the high wire act that occurs when a song writes itself through musicians and their instruments. And with Earth People, a group composed of skillful and imaginative players, the music is a full-throttle adventure. As the Salvador Dali quote in the liner notes states, “If you understand your painting ...