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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 Umar Ali. 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 (2).

Starting off as a pianist he eventually took up the drums, via trumpet and trombone.(wikipedia)

ALBUMS


Mark Bogaerts, Garrett List, Amin Ali, Rashied Ali
UP! Live In Brussels Part 1
2019, 5xFile, FLAC, Album, Not on Label (Mark Bogaerts Self-Released),
Mark Bogaerts, Garrett List, Amin Ali, Rashied Ali
UP! Live In Brussels Part 2
2019, 5xFile, FLAC, Album, Not on Label (Mark Bogaerts Self-Released),
Sangeeta Michael Berardi, Joe Diorio, Vea Williams, Eddie Gomez, Rashied Ali, Geoffrey Gordon, Rahiim Taliib
Music Is Love: The Manhattan Sessions
2018, CD, Sunjump Records,
Henry Grimes / Rashied Ali
Spirits Aloft
2010, CD, Album, Porter Records
Prima Materia With Rashied Ali
Configurations (The Music of John Coltrane)
2009, 9xFile, MP3, Album, Blue Music Group
Henry Grimes / Rashied Ali
Going To The Ritual
2008, CD, Album, Porter Records, ,
Free Jazz/Free Improvisation
Rashied Ali, Hayes Greenfield, Don Pate
Duo + One
2008, 10xFile, MP3, Album, Dots & Lines, Survival Records (2)
The Dynamic Duo (5) : Rashied Ali & Arthur Rhames
Remember Trane And Bird
2004, 2xCD, Album, Ayler Records, ,
Free Jazz/Free Improvisation/Interview
The John Lewis Sound (2) With The Magical Rashied Ali
Get To This Y'all! (Volume One)
2002, CD, Album, Miles Ahead Inc.
Ali* / Belogenis* / Morris*
Live At Tonic
2001, CD, Album, DIW
Rashied Ali / Peter Kowald / Assif Tsahar
Deals, Ideas & Ideals
2001, CD, Album, Hopscotch Records (3), ,
Free Jazz
Tisziji Muñoz Featuring Rashied Ali
Parallel Reality
2000, CD, Album, Anami Music,
Rashied Ali - Louie Belogenis*
Rings Of Saturn
1999, CD, Album, Knitting Factory Records
Ivo Perelman With Matthew Shipp, Rashied Ali, Guilherme Franco, Cyro Baptista
Brazilian Watercolour
1999, ,
Free Jazz
Ivo Perelman, William Parker, Rashied Ali
Live
1997, CD, Album, Zero In
Ivo Perelman With William Parker And Rashid Ali*
Sad Life
1997, ,
Free Jazz/Free Improvisation
Rashied Ali, Borah Bergman, Joe McPhee, Wilber Morris / Myra Melford Trio
The October Revolution
1996, CD, Album, Evidence (5), ,
Free Jazz
Prima Materia With Rashied Ali
Bells
1996, CD, Album, Knitting Factory Works
Prima Materia With Rashied Ali
Meditations
1995, CD, Album, Knitting Factory Works
Peter Brötzmann • Fred Hopkins • Rashied Ali
Songlines
1994, ,
Free Improvisation/Free Jazz
Charles Gayle, William Parker, Rashied Ali
Touchin' On Trane
1993
Jaco Pastorius & Rashid Ali*
Blackbird
1991
Zusaan Kali Fasteau* With Rashied Ali And Bob Cunningham
Beyond Words
1987
Vito Ricci with Rashied Ali & Byard Lancaster
Postones
1983, Cass, Album, Creation Production Company Inc.
Rashied Ali / Le Roy Jenkins*
Swift Are The Winds Of Life
1976, ,
Free Jazz
Rashied Ali featuring Royal Blue
N.Y. Ain't So Bad: Ali Plays The Blues
1976
Rashied Ali / Frank Lowe
Duo Exchange
1973
Rashied Ali Quintet
Judgment Day Vol. 1
2006, CD, Album, Survival Records (2),
Rashied Ali Quintet
Judgment Day Vol. 2
2006, CD, Album, Survival Records (2),
Rashied Ali Quintet
No One In Particular
2001, CD, Album, Survival Records (2)
Rashied Ali Quartet + Quintet*
Moon Flight
1999, ,
Free Jazz
Rashied Ali Quartet
New Directions In Modern Music
1999, ,
Free Jazz
Rashied Ali Quintet
Rashied Ali Quintet
1999, ,
Free Jazz
Joe Lee Wilson & Bond Street
What Would It Be Without You
1999
Andrew Cyrille & Maono
Celebration
1975
Rashied Ali Quartet
New Directions In Modern Music
1973
Rashied Ali Quintet
First Time Out: Live At Slugs 1967
2020
Rashied Ali Quintet
Live In Europe
2009, CD, Album, Survival Records (2)
By Any Means
Live At Crescendo
2008, 2xCD, Album, Ayler Records, ,
Free Jazz
Purple Trap
Decided ... Already The Motionless Heart Of Tranquility, Tangling The Prayer Called "I"
1999, 2xCD, Album, Tzadik, ,
Free Jazz/Noise
Prima Materia
Peace On Earth (Music Of John Coltrane)
1994, CD, Album, Knitting Factory Works, ,
Free Improvisation/Avant-garde Jazz
David Murray Quartet
Body And Soul
1993
Phalanx
In Touch
1988
Phalanx
Original Phalanx
1987, ,
Free Jazz/Avant-garde Jazz
Saheb Sarbib Quintet
It Couldn't Happen Without You
1984
Rashied Ali Quintet
Rashied Ali Quintet
1973
Gary Bartz NTU Troop
Home!
1970
Marion Brown Quartet
Why Not
1968, ,
Free Jazz
Marion Brown Quartet
Marion Brown Quartet
1966
Rashied Ali
At The Boltax
2014, ,
Modal
Rashied Ali Quartet
New Directions In Modern Music
2013, ,
Free Jazz

APPEARANCES +


Rashied Ali
Cutt'n Korners
2009, 9xFile, MP3, Album, Blue Music Group
Rashied Ali
In France
2009, 6xFile, MP3, Album, Blue Music Group
Alan Shorter
Mephistopheles To Orgasm Revisited
2024, CD, Album, RE, RM, ezz-thetics, ,
Post Bop
Purple Trap
The Stone
2023, 7xFile, FLAC, Not On Label (Bill Laswell Self-Released), ,
Free Improvisation
The Jazz Doctors
Intensive Care: Prescriptions Filled (The Billy Bang Quartet Sesssions 1983 / 1984)
2023, CD, Comp, Cadillac Records
Noël Akchoté
E.D.A. (Gestures Of Rashied Ali) (For Guitar).
2023, 10xFile, MP3, EP, 320, Noël Akchoté Downloads
Ted Daniel With Energy
Live At Ali's Alley
2023, 2xLP, Album, Ltd, Num, Ujamaa Records, ,
Free Jazz/Big Band
Various
Impulse Records (Music, Message And The Moment)
2021,
Marion Brown
Why Not? Porto Novo! Revisited
2020, CD, Comp, ezz-thetics
Various
Spiritual Jazz XII - Impulse! (Esoteric, Modal & Progressive Jazz From The Impulse! Label 1962-75)
2020, ,
Modal/Free Jazz
Albert Ayler, Marion Brown, Sonny Simmons, Ronnie Boykins, Sun Ra
ESP在中国 = ESP-Disk' Cassette Boxset
2019, Box, Comp, Ltd + 5xCass, Album, RE, Old Heaven Books, ESP Disk, ,
Free Jazz
Marion Brown
Capricorn Moon To Juba Lee Revisited
2019, CD, Comp, ezz-thetics, ,
Free Jazz
Various
Blue Break Beats - The Jazz Break Beats That Made Hip-Hop Hits
2017, 3xCD, Comp, Blue Note, ,
Jazz-Funk/Soul-Jazz
Jaco Pastorius
Jaco Pastorius Bass Workshop - Jazz Concert In Martinique
2017, CD, Album, Altus Jazz
Frank Lowe Quartet
Out Loud
2014, 2xLP, Dlx, Ltd, Num, Triple Point Records
Tisziji Muñoz
Sky Worlds
2014, ,
Free Jazz
John Coltrane
Offering: Live At Temple University
2014, ,
Avant-garde Jazz
David Murray
The Complete Remastered Recordings On Black Saint & Soul Note - Volume 2
2013, 7xCD, Album, RE, RM + Box, Comp, Black Saint, Soul Note, ,
Avant-garde Jazz
Tisziji Muñoz
Divine Radiance Live!
2013, CD, Album, Anami Music,
Tisziji Muñoz
Paul Shaffer Presents: Tisziji Munoz Divine Radiance Live!
2013, DVD, NTSC, Anami Music, ,
Avant-garde Jazz
John Coltrane
The Impulse! Albums: Volume Four
2011, CD, Album, RE + CD, Album, RE + CD, Album, RE + CD, Impulse!, Hip-O Select, Verve Records
Frank Wright Quartet*
Blues For Albert Ayler
2011
Alice Coltrane
Huntington Ashram Monastery / World Galaxy
2011, ,
Fusion/Avant-garde Jazz
Alice Coltrane
Universal Consciousness / Lord Of Lords
2011, ,
Free Jazz/Contemporary Jazz
Burton Greene
Live At The Woodstock Playhouse 1965
2010, CD, Album, Porter Records
The New Art Jazz Quartet
Live At Birdland
2010, CD, Album, Ltd, American Revelation Music, Inc.
Azar Lawrence
Mystic Journey
2010
Joris Teepe Big Band
We Take No Prisoners
2009, CD, Album, Challenge Records (3), ,
Big Band/Post Bop
Hal Galper
Art-Work
2009, CD, Album, Origin Records, ,
Post Bop
Rashied Ali Quintet Featuring Eddie Jefferson
Eddie Jefferson At Ali's Alley
2009, 10xFile, FLAC, Album, Blue Music Group
Steve Geraci
Aliqae Song
2009, CD, Album, Sunjump Records
John Coltrane
The Impulse! Albums: Volume Three
2009, ,
Hard Bop/Free Jazz
Frank Wright
Unity
2006, CD, Album, RM, ESP Disk, ,
Free Jazz
Lise Vachon
Vocalise
2006, CD, Album, Say No More Music
Various
The House That Trane Built: The Story Of Impulse Records
2006, ,
Hard Bop/Soul-Jazz/Free Jazz
Albert Ayler
Holy Ghost
2005, 3xLP, Comp, Cle, Revenant, ,
Free Jazz
Various
Rising Tones Cross (A Jazz Film By Ebba Jahn)
2005, DVD, NTSC, PAL, FilmPals, ,
Free Jazz/Free Improvisation
Ivo Perelman
Sad Life
2005
Albert Ayler
Holy Ghost
2004, 10xCD, Comp + Box, Revenant, ,
Free Jazz/Interview
Noah Howard
The Eye Of The Improviser
2003, 2xCDr, Comp, Altsax, ,
Free Jazz
Tisziji Muñoz
Divine Radiance
2003, CD, Album, Dreyfus Jazz, Anami Music
Various
Classic Jazz: The Sixties - Take Two
2003, 2xCD, Comp, Time Life Music, Universal Music Special Markets,
Andrew Sterman
Blue Canvas With Spiral
2003, CD, Breath River Publishing, Inc., ,
Contemporary Jazz
Tisziji Muñoz
Shaman-Bala
2002, 2xCD, Album, Anami Music,
John Coltrane
The Olatunji Concert: The Last Live Recording
2001
Tisziji Muñoz
Presence Of Mastery (Nirmana-Kaya)
2000, CD, Album, Anami Music, ,
Free Jazz/Jazz-Rock/Free Improvisation
Sonny Fortune
In The Spirit Of John Coltrane
2000, CD, Album, Shanachie, ,
Post Bop
Tisziji Muñoz
Breaking The Wheel Of Life And Death
2000, CD, Album, Anami Music
Tisziji Muñoz
The Hu-Man Spirit
2000, 2xCD, Album, Anami Music
John Coltrane
Ken Burns Jazz
2000, ,
Hard Bop/Modal/Instrumental
Various
Blue Break Beats (Volumes One - Four)
1999, 4xCD + Box, Comp, Blue Note, ,
Soul-Jazz/Smooth Jazz/Contemporary Jazz/Fusion/Big Band/Jazz-Funk/Cool Jazz
Various
Transcendence - Impulse! In The Spiritual Groove
1999, CD, Comp, Impulse!
Tisziji Muñoz
Presence Of Truth
1999, CD, Album, Anami Music,
Tisziji Muñoz
Presence Of Joy
1999, CD, Album, Anami Music,
Ivo Perelman
Aquarela Do Brazil
1999
Alice Coltrane
Astral Meditations
1999, ,
Free Jazz/Spiritual Jazz
Various
Vision Volume One: Vision Festival 1997 Compiled
1998, 2xCD, Comp, Ltd, AUM Fidelity, ,
Free Jazz
Tisziji Muñoz
Spirit World
1997, 2xCD, Album, Anami Music
Tisziji Muñoz
River Of Blood
1997, CD, Album, Anami Music, ,
Avant-garde Jazz
Tisziji Muñoz
Present Without A Trace
1997, CD, Album, Anami Music,
Stoker
Syncopate
1997, ,
Electro/Breakbeat/Jazz-Funk/Post Bop
Various
New York Downtown: Jazz & Other Sounds
1996, CD, Comp, Knitting Factory Works, ,
Contemporary Jazz/Avant-garde Jazz
Christoph Gallio
À Gertrude Stein
1996, CD, Album, Percaso Production, ,
Avant-garde Jazz
Henry Rollins
Everything
1996, ,
Free Jazz/Audiobook/Ambient
Various
Blue Break Beats Volume Three
1996, ,
Jazz-Funk
James Blood Ulmer
Plays The Music Of Ornette Coleman : Music Speaks Louder Than Words
1996, ,
Modern Electric Blues/Contemporary Jazz
Jeff Palmer
Island Universe
1995, CD, Album, Soul Note,
John Coltrane
Stellar Regions
1995
David Murray
David Murray
1994, CD, Comp, Musica Jazz, Black Saint, ,
Avant-garde Jazz
John Coltrane
Spiritual
1994, ,
Bop/Fusion
Rudolph Grey
Mask Of Light
1991, ,
Free Jazz/Free Improvisation
Rudolph Grey
Implosion - 73
1991
John Coltrane
Live In Japan
1991, ,
Free Jazz/Avant-garde Jazz
Various
Red Hot On Impulse!
1991, ,
Free Jazz/Post Bop/Modal
Joe Gallant / Illuminati*
Skin
1990, CD, Scratchy Records (3),
John Coltrane
The World According To John Coltrane
1990, ,
Bop/Free Jazz/Modal/Hard Bop/African
Michael Bocian
Go Groove
1989, CD, Album, GM Recordings
Zusaan Kali Fasteau*
Worlds Beyond Words
1989, ,
Free Jazz
Zusaan Kali Fasteau*
Affinity
1988, Cass, Album, Flying Note, Zenjin Music, ,
Free Jazz/Modal
Zusaan Kali Fasteau*
Beyond Words
1987
Vito Ricci
Say No More
1984, Cass, Creation Production Company Inc.
The Jazz Doctors
Intensive Care
1984, ,
Avant-garde Jazz
Afro Algonquin
Afro Algonquin
1980, LP, Album, Moers Music, Moers Music
Sangeeta*
Divine Song
1980, ,
Avant-garde Jazz
Archie Shepp
Further Fire Music
1978, ,
Free Jazz
John Coltrane
The Mastery Of John Coltrane / Vol. III "Jupiter Variation"
1978, ,
Free Jazz/Post Bop
John Coltrane Quintet
Second Night In Tokyo
1977, ,
Avant-garde Jazz/Free Improvisation
Rashied Ali Quartet / Quintet*
Moon Flight
1976
Joe Lee Wilson & Bond Street
What Would It Be Without You
1976
Noah Howard
Live At The Village Vanguard
1975
Elvin Jones
The Impulse Years
1974, ,
Post Bop
John Coltrane
Interstellar Space
1974
John Coltrane
Concert In Japan
1973, ,
Free Jazz
Alice Coltrane
Reflection On Creation And Space (A Five Year View)
1973, ,
Contemporary Jazz
Various
Impulsively!
1973, ,
Poetry/Fusion/Free Jazz/Avant-garde Jazz/Soul-Jazz
John Coltrane
The Best Of John Coltrane - His Greatest Years, Vol. 2
1972, ,
Free Jazz/Modal
John Coltrane
Infinity
1972, ,
Free Jazz/Avant-garde Jazz
Various
Impulse Energy Essentials (A Developmental And Historical Introduction To The New Music)
1972, ,
Free Jazz/Modal/Post Bop/Soul-Jazz/Hard Bop
Alice Coltrane
Universal Consciousness
1971
John Coltrane
Afro-Blue
1971
Alice Coltrane Featuring Pharoah Sanders
Journey In Satchidananda
1971, ,
Avant-garde Jazz/Modal/Post Bop
John* + Alice Coltrane
John + Alice Coltrane
1970, LP, Comp, Hör Zu Black Label, ,
Free Jazz/Modal
John Coltrane
My Favorite Things
1970, LP, Comp, Gat, Impulse!, ABC Records
Joe Lee Wilson
Hey Look At You
1970
John Coltrane
The Best Of John Coltrane - His Greatest Years
1970, ,
Free Jazz/Modal
Archie Shepp
Archie Shepp
1969, 7", EP, Fratelli Fabbri Editori
John Coltrane
John Coltrane
1969, 3xLP + 7", Promo + Box, Comp, Impulse!, ABC Records, ,
Free Jazz/Post Bop/Modal
Alan Shorter
Orgasm
1969
Alice Coltrane
Huntington Ashram Monastery
1969, ,
Post Bop
Alice Coltrane
A Monastic Trio
1968
John Coltrane, Alice Coltrane
Cosmic Music
1968
Jackie McLean
'Bout Soul
1968, ,
Free Jazz
John Coltrane
Expression
1967, ,
Free Jazz/Post Bop/Modal
Various
The ESP Sampler
1967, ,
Free Jazz/Folk Rock/Avantgarde/Lo-Fi/Parody/Avant-garde Jazz/Experimental/Poetry/Monolog/Spoken Word/Free Improvisation
John Coltrane
Meditations
1966
John Coltrane
Live At The Village Vanguard Again!
1966
Archie Shepp
On This Night
1965, ,
Free Jazz/Post Bop/Free Improvisation
Rashied Ali Quartet
At The Vision Festival
4xFile, MP3, Album, Blue Music Group
Albert Ayler
Holy Ghost - Vol. 1
LP, Comp, Cle, Revenant
Various
Roadrunner's Radio Volume 1
2020, Cass, Mixtape, Num, S/Edition, ROADRUNNER's REC's
Various
Soul Of A Nation 2 (Jazz Is The Teacher Funk Is The Preacher: Afro-Centric Jazz, Street Funk And The Roots Of Rap In The Black Power Era 1969-75)
2018
Various
Concise Guide To Jazz - Fifth Edition
2007, 2xCD, Comp, Pearson Education,
Various
Bateria
2005, CD, Comp, Corda Seca,
Various
New Thing!
2005, ,
Free Jazz/Hard Bop/Jazz-Funk
Various
Vooruit Geluid Festival
2002, CD, Comp, Promo, Vooruit, ,
Alternative Rock/Folk/Minimal/Free Jazz/Modern Classical/Avantgarde/Easy Listening/Art Rock/Contemporary Jazz/Ethereal/Electro/Experimental
Various
KnitClassics Sampler
2000, CD, Comp, Smplr, Knit Classics
Various
Saxophone Stylists - Rollins, Coltrane, Berry, Webster
1985, 4xCass, The Franklin Mint Record Society, ,
Bop
Various
Saxophone Stylists - Rollins, Coltrane, Berry, Webster
1985, ,
Bop
Various
The Drums
1974,
Various
Tribeca Grand Hotel: Fresh Sounds From Tribeca, NYC Vol. 1
CD, Comp, Knitting Factory Records, ,
Free Jazz/Illbient/Dub/Industrial/Drum n Bass
James Blood Ulmer Featuring Rashied Ali
Special Project
2023, CDr, Album, Unofficial, Stargazer's File
Alice Coltrane
Universal Consciousness
2022, ,
Free Jazz
Alice Coltrane
Huntington Ashram Monastery
2021, ,
Fusion/Avant-garde Jazz/Free Jazz
John Coltrane
My Favorite Things Live In Japan 1966
2018, ,
Free Jazz/Modal
Rashied Ali / Frank Lowe
Duo Exchange
2016
John Coltrane And Alice Coltrane
Cosmic Music
2015
Jaco Pastorius, Rashid Ali*
Live In Cannes, France - 19th December 1984
2011, ,
Jazz-Rock
John Coltrane
At Temple University 1966
2010, CD, Unofficial, FreeFactory
John Coltrane
Last Performance At Newport July 2, 1966
2009
John Coltrane
Live At The Newport Jazz Festival, Newport, Rhode Island, USA, July 2, 1966
2008, CDr, Ltd, Num, Unofficial, OlkMen Records
John Coltrane
Interstellar Space
2002
John Coltrane
The Olatunji Concert: The Last Live Recording
2001, ,
Free Jazz
Alice Coltrane Featuring Pharoah Sanders
Journey In Satchidananda
1998, ,
Avant-garde Jazz/Modal/Post Bop
John Coltrane
Meditations
1997
John Coltrane
Stellar Regions
,
Free Jazz