Eastern Sounds 

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The jazz bassist and composer Ahmed Abdul-Malik was born Jonathan Tim Jr. in Brownsville, Brooklyn, in 1927. Throughout his life Tim claimed Sudanese descent, but according to the historian Robin D. G. Kelley, his roots were actually Caribbean. In the Fifties it was not unusual for black musicians to search for new connections with their […]
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