Although Wadud was soon recognized as an innovator, he gave few interviews. The album was recently remastered and reissued on Gotta Groove Records. The band’s sole surviving album, Al-Fatihah, was taped in December 1968, while Wadud was enrolled at Oberlin Conservatory. In the Black Unity Trio, formed with saxophonist Yusuf Mumin and drummer Hasan Shahid in Cleveland, Wadud demonstrated how the instrument could function on an equal footing in a collective improvisation context. When he relocated to study with Greenhouse, Wadud had already broken new ground with the cello. In improvised music, the instrument long remained confined to marginal use. Greenhouse had come up in an era where the cello was “thought capable of little more than ooming and pahing at the bottom of an orchestra,” the New York Times noted on his passing. Julius Hemphill + Abdul Wadud d.c.space, 1978 © 2020 Michael Wildermanīorn Ronald Earsal DeVaughn on April 30, 1947, Abdul Khabir Wadud studied with several prominent cellists, including chamber music specialist Bernard Greenhouse.
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