Rasul Siddik
Rasul Siddik, sometimes spelled Rasul Sadik (born September 20, 1949, St. Louis) is an American jazz trumpeter. He is a member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians.
Siddik played early in his career with the St. Louis Creative Ensemble, playing with Charles "Bobo" Shaw and James Bowie. In the 1980s he worked with Karlton Hester's Contemporary Art Movement and with Michele Rosewoman before joining Henry Threadgill's sextet from about 1984 through the end of the decade. Concomitantly, he played in the latter half of the 1980s with Lester Bowie, Oliver Lake, and Julius Hemphill. He first began working with David Murray around 1987, an association that continued into the 2000s. He moved to Paris in the 1990s, where he worked with Billy Bang, Ghasem Batamuntu, Christian Blazer, Hamiett Bluiett, Benjamin Duboc, Kahil El'Zabar, Bobby Few, Sunny Murray, and Romano Partesi.
References
- "Rasul Siddik". The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. 2nd edition, ed. Barry Kernfeld, 2004.