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Leo Morris

Leo Morris changed his name to {{m: Idris Muhammad = 9675}} in the 1960s upon his conversion to Islam. Speaking on his name change, he later noted in an interview with Modern Drummer magazine, "One guy told me that if I changed my name, I was going to have a problem because no one would know that Leo Morris and Idris Muhammad were the same guy...But I thought, well, if I stay the same person, then people will know it’s me. And it worked like that. Everybody knew right away that it was me, because of my style of playing.

Say It Loud!

By Lou Donaldson

Label: Water
Released: 2005
Track listing: Say It Loud, I'm Black and I'm Proud; Summertime ; Caravan; Snake Bone; Brother Soul.