Sabir Mateen

Sabir Mateen is a Philadelphia-born American free jazz multi-instrumentalist and composer who plays tenor and alto saxophone, clarinet, alto clarinet and flute. He started out as a percussionist and took up the flute as a teenager. He is known for his work in the New York free jazz scene of the 1990s and 2000s, including the group TEST with Daniel Carter. Sabir Mateen played tenor saxophone in Horace Tapscott's Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra in Los Angeles.