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- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1919-07-15
- Active to
- 1983-06-20
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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 Koko session and recording with Dexter Gordon and Lester Young (he can be heard on
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- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Duluth
- Place of death
- New York City
- Occupation
- pianist
- Religion
- Islam
- Genre
- jazz
- Instrument
- piano
- Image
- Sadik Hakim circa 1965.jpg
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