Idrees Sulieman

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Idrees Sulieman
Birth name Idrees Sulieman
Born (1923-08-07)August 7, 1923
Origin United States St. Petersburg, Florida, USA
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Genres Bop
Hard bop
Occupation(s) Trumpeter
Instruments Trumpet
Associated acts Cab Calloway, Count Basie, Howard McGhee, Lionel Hampton, Thelonious Monk

Idrees Sulieman (August 7, 1923 – July 23, 2002, both in St. Petersburg, Florida) was a bop and hard bop trumpeter. He studied at Boston Conservatory, and gained early experience playing with the Carolina Cotton Pickers and the wartime Earl Hines Orchestra (1943–1944).

On October 15, 1947, on what was Suliman’s second recording date (source: liner notes by Michael Cuscuna to The Complete Blue Note Recordings of Thelonious Monk) he played on Thelonious Monk’s first recording for Blue Note Records.

Sulieman was also closely associated with Mary Lou Williams and for a time and had stints with Cab Calloway, John Coltrane, Count Basie, and Lionel Hampton. Sulieman recorded with Coleman Hawkins (1957) and gigged with Randy Weston (1958–1959), in addition to popping up in many other situations.

He toured Europe in 1961 with Oscar Dennard, and stayed, settling in Stockholm at first, and then moved to Copenhagen in 1964. A soloist with the Kenny Clarke/Francy Boland Big Band from the mid-'60s through 1973, Sulieman frequently worked with radio orchestras. His recordings as a leader were for Swedish Columbia (1964) and SteepleChase (1976 and 1985). In 1985, he was among the performers on Miles Davis' album Aura, which was not released until 1989. Sulieman's career slowed down considerably in the 1990s.

He died of bladder cancer on July 23, 2002 at St. Anthony's Hospital in St. Petersburg, Florida.

Discography

As leader

As sideman

With Gene Ammons

With Art Blakey

With Clifford Brown

With Teddy Charles

With the Kenny Clarke/Francy Boland Big Band

With Miles Davis

  • Aura (Columbia, 1985)

With Eric Dolphy

  • Stockholm Sessions (Enja, 1961)

With Tommy Flanagan

With Dexter Gordon

  • More Than You Know (SteepleChase, 1975)

With Coleman Hawkins

With Joe Henderson

With Bobby Jaspar

  • Bobby Jaspar (Riverside, 1957)

With Thad Jones

  • Live at the Montmartre: A Good Time Was Had by All (Storyville, 1978)

'With Thelonious Monk

With Horace Parlan

  • Arrival (SteepleChase, 1973)

With Max Roach

With Mal Waldron

With Randy Weston

With Lester Young

  • Masters of Jazz (Storyville, 1951–56)

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