What is the birth name of the drummer for the free jazz quartet Center of the World?
Last Polka in Nancy? Last Polka in Nancy? is the second album by the free jazz quartet Center of the World, consisting of saxophonist Frank Wrigth, pianist Bobby Few, bassist Alan Silva and drummer Muhammad Ali. It was recorded live in 1973 at the Nancy Jazz Pulsations Festival and released on the French Center of the World label. The album was reissued on CD in 1999 by Fractal with a previously unreleased performance from a 1978 reunion.
Rashied Ali Rashied Ali, born Robert Patterson (July 1, 1933 – August 12, 2009 was an American free jazz and avant-garde drummer best known for playing with John Coltrane in the last years of Coltrane's life.