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Ahmed Abdul-Malik

Ahmed Abdul-Malik was among the 1st musicians to integrate non-Western musical elements into jazz. Not only is it a difficult bop bassist of some variation, he also performed the oud, a double-stringed, unfretted Middle Eastern lute, used a plectrum. Abdul-Malik documented on the device within the ’50s with Johnny Griffin …

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