Sahib Shihab variously worked with Luther Henderson, Thelonious Monk, Fletcher Henderson, Tadd Dameron, Dizzy Gillespie, Kenny Clarke, John Coltrane and Quincy Jones among others.
11 Facts About Sahib Shihab
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Sahib Shihab played lead alto with Fletcher Henderson in the mid-1940s.
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Sahib Shihab was one of the first jazz musicians to convert to Islam and changed his name in 1947.
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Sahib Shihab settled in Scandinavia, first in Stockholm, Sweden, then moving in 1964 to Copenhagen, Denmark.
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Sahib Shihab worked for Copenhagen Polytechnic and wrote scores for television, cinema and theatre.
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Sahib Shihab wrote a ballet based on the Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale, The Red Shoes.
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Sahib Shihab married a Danish woman and raised a family in Europe.
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In 1973, Sahib Shihab returned to the United States for a three-year stay, working as a session musician for rock and pop artists and working as a copyist for local musicians.
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Sahib Shihab spent his remaining years between New York and Copenhagen, and played in a partnership with Art Farmer.
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From 1986, Sahib Shihab was a visiting artist at Rutgers University.
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Sahib Shihab died from liver cancer on October 24,1989, in Nashville, Tennessee, United States, aged 64.