Trumpeter, band leader and award-winning composer Ameen Muhammad is probably best-known for his work with Ernest Dawkins' New Horizons Ensemble, but he also has his own quintet --Chicago 3-D -- which played at the 1997 Chicago Jazz Festival and has been the Vice Chairman of the seminal AACM from 1983 to the present. He has also played in the Kahil El' Zabar Infinity Orchestra. He was also the recipient of a "Meet the Composer New Residencies" grant (1995-1998) where he was able to take the music of his Chicago 3-D to schools and community centers across the Southside and all of Chicago: "I liken my role to that of the African Griot, whose function is to impart information on the ethnic heritage, promote ethnic traditions, and inspire cultural and intellectual awareness via the oral tradition; relating stories orally transmitted through generations and the vehicle of Great Black Music."
In addition to his educational and live performance work, Muhammad has also appeared on a number of recordings including: Chicago Now: 30 Years of Great Black Music (Silkheart Records 1996), Southside Street Songs (Silkheart Records, 1993, 1995), After the Dawn has Risen (Open Mind Records 1992), and Birth of a Notion (King Records 1990).
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