Artist Info: Black Unity Trio

Yusuf Mumin [aka Joe Phillips] (alto saxophone), Abdul Wadud [aka Ron "Ronald" DeVaughn] (cello, bass), Haasan-Al-Hut (percussion)

Saxophonist and double bassist Yusuf Mumin, cellist Abdul Wadud and drummer Hasan Shahid came together some six months before recording Al-Fatihah and disbanded in 1969. Al-Fatihah bears witness to those months of highly intense musical activity. “I haven’t experienced a total situation like that since then, the combination of music and philosophy and life all in one. [read more...]