Rasul Siddik

Rasul Siddik (1949-2023) was an American jazz trumpeter, born Jan Corlus Mahr in St. Louis, Missouri. Largely self-taught, he played early in his career in the St. Louis Creative Ensemble with Charles "Bobo" Shaw and Joseph Bowie. He then moved to Chicago, where he studied at the AACM school, became a member of the association and took the name Rasul Olufemi Siddik. In the 1990s he settled in Paris. In the 1980s Siddik played with Karlton Hester and Michele Rosewoman, and from 1984 he was in Henry Threadgill's sextet.