Since 1949 Jazz legend Alaadeen has been playing his saxophone with many of the greatest names in music including Billie Holiday, Miles Davis, Ella Fitzgerald, The Count Basie Orchestra, The Duke Ellington Orchestra, Motown stars Gladys Knight, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, Four Tops, Sam Cooke, and contemporaries T. S. Monk.
"Alaadeen is a Kansas City-based tenor and soprano saxophonist-composer with one foot in the old school one in post-Coltrane expressions. "The Jannah Now" shows that Alaadeen is not above putting some funk in his stride." ..Willard Jenkins, Independent Ear
"I love every track, from the opening cut, The Summer Knows, the reharmonization of Dearly Beloved, and Alaadeen’s The Beauty Of It All, just to name a few. I am still digesting the whole thing. It sets one hell of a mood!" …Bobby Watson
"Saxophonist Alaadeen is an inspired player, inventive composer and strong bandleader. Those skills, which he puts to good use with his Deans of Swing, are readily apparent on ‘Blues for RC and Josephine, too’ "
… Calvin Wilson, Kansas City Star"
The Beauty Of It All
Released 2007
$12.99
New Africa Suite
Released 2005
$12.99
1. THE SUMMER KNOWS
2. AND THE BEAUTY OF IT ALL
3. DEARLY BELOVED
4. WHEN LOVE HAS
5. FREE MAN
6. DETOUR AHEAD
7. THEY SAY IT'S WONDERFUL
1. GRACE
2. BENEATH WHERE RIVERS FLOW
3. SALAAM, SHALOM, PEACE
4. THE BURNING SAND
5. TIME'S UP
6. HOME AGAIN
7. THE JANNAH NOW
1. 'ASR
2. DOIN' THE DEAN
3. WHEN LOVE HAS
4. JEANNINE
5. 21ST CENTURY RAGG
6. IN THE WEE SMALL HOURS OF THE MORNING
7. THE RINGINGS
1. BLUES FOR RC
2. JOSEPHINE
3. SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME
4. WAYNE HIMSELF
5. BIG SIX
6. FACADE
7. REQUIEM FOR GERALD
8. BIG 'UN
JUNE
June 13
The City Light Orchestra featuring Alaadeen,
Kansas City MO
June 14, Noon - 1:00p
Performance by Alaadeen & group 21
Rhythm & Ribs Festival
American Jazz Museum, 18th & Vine, Kansas City MO
June 17
The City Light Orchestra featuring Alaadeen,
Kansas City, MO _______________________ JULY
July 5, 8:30p
Performance by Alaadeen & group 21,
The Blue Room, 18th & Vine, Kansas City, MO
July 14
The City Light Orchestra featuring Alaadeen,
Kansas City, MO _______________________ AUGUST
Aug 2, 8:30p
Performance by Alaadeen & group 21,
The Blue Room, 18th & Vine, Kansas City, MO _________________________ OCTOBER
Oct 4
Clinic and performance by Alaadeen & group 21
The Goddard Center, Ardmore, Oklahoma
Oct 28, - 12:50p
Performance by Alaadeen & group 21,
Carlson Center Recital Hall, Johnson County Community College, 12345 College, Overland Park, Kansas
DATES & APPEARENCES
Alaadeen
Time Through The Ages
Released 1997
$12.99
Plays Blues For R.C.
and Josephine too
Released 1995
$12.99
