Rashied Ali, RIP

Heard this via Phil's twitter, horribly, sadly confirmed at Jazzwise:

Revolutionary Drummer Rashied Ali Dies

What the??!??!?

RIP Rashied!!!!!!!!!!!!

ahhhhh fuck.

damn.

:(

Rest in Interstellar Space, Rashied.

rip

haven't heard this record but this cover is RADDDD
http://www.rashiedali.org/images/coverart/RashiedAliQuintet-JudgmentDayVol1.jpg

RIP

gonna spin this one in the great man's honour, one of my v. fave free blowouts

http://www.rashiedali.org/images/coverart/RashiedAliandFrankLowe-DuoExchange.jpg

Listening to Universal Consciousness in your honor, dear .

I love that it's Judgment Day, Vol. 1. The punishment will continue!

Great Ali albums more people should hear:

Charles Gayle/William Parker/Rashied Ali, Touchin' On Trane (his final gig was with this band, apparently, at Newport last weekend)
Louie Belogenis/Wilber Morris/Rashied Ali, Live At Tonic
Assif Tsahar/Peter Kowald/Rashied Ali, Deals, Ideas and Ideals

OMG

RIP

man fuck this year. already we've lost Ron Asheton, Lux Interior, Les Paul, Rashied Ali... christ.

RIP Rashied.

RIP

boooo!

Saw him play once at least, with Prima Materia.

Not the best album by any means, but still one I enjoy. Really love Ali & Fred Hopkins on this:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51P%2BzaJ1gwL._SS500_.jpg

So sad. I met him once and he was a gracious, funny man. My hero.

:-(

http://bp0.blogger.com/_0NEZQcp5twg/Rt-m-tz58PI/AAAAAAAAABM/ttdW02AnVj0/s1600-h/rudolphgreymaskoflight.jpg

Think this was maybe the first time I heard Rashied Ali play. Jim Sauter, Rudolph Grey, Alan Licht and Rashied Ali, all cooking up a hell of a racket that just kept on driving way the fuck out there into the blue. Maybe I'll have to blast this one tonight.

http://www.discogs.com/image/R-150-392292-1107279062.jpg

^ um, this one

fucking hell, that's awful. one of my drummers/musicians/whatever... RIP

Holy shit, another good man down. 2009 = the year the music died. I can't say enough about Rashied, other than that Interstellar Space is one of my alltime top ten recordings, and that there are times when I'd swear that he was a better Coltrane accompanist than Elvin Jones, even. So glad I saw him in Toronto in '95, backing Charles Gayle.

RIP

(I second the Frank Lowe collab, as well as THIS:

http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/9920bed157c96e7b51a8102d1633da7d/o235507.jpg

There you go, NickB)

Thanks MVB, but I can't see that either! Something funny going on w/ images. It was Mask of Light anyhow.

I'd swear that he was a better Coltrane accompanist than Elvin Jones, even

Coltrane himself would probably agree with that

Can anyone with a better knowledge of US city skylines tell me where that Judgment Day cover pic is of?

one thing i will never understand. what is the point of posting RIP on a thread about someone who has died? people who are dead are where they are. why should they rest in peace? what is this bullshit idea? i'd prefer them to haunt us as long as possible. RIP is an offense against the dead. they are still there. christians believe in the soul who never dies. i am no true christian but i believe that the soul of a dead person lives on. rashied ali should definitely not rest in peace. he will drum on my stereo for the next 30 years. meditations forever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LE2WBSXJG8E

On ITunes there's an edition of the Radio3 'Jazz Library' Podcast about RA, which has excerpts from an interview with the man.
A bit brief but a nice listen nevertheless and free too.