Sadik Hakim (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Sadik Hakim (born Argonne Thornton on July 15, 1919 in Duluth, Minnesota; died in New York in June 1983) was an American jazz pianist and composer. Thornton was taught piano by his grandfather and started playing professionally about 1939. In 1944 he moved to New York City and was hired by Ben Webster. He participated in the emergence of bebop, sharing piano duties with Dizzy Gillespie on Charlie Parker's famous "Ko-Ko" session and recording with Dexter Gordon and Lester Young (he can be heard on Young's "I'm Confessin'"). Hakim is credited with co-writing Thelonious Monk's standard "Eronel" and is rumored to have written a few famous bop tunes credited to other composers. He adopted his Muslim name in 1947.