jazz drummer who backed John Coltrane and accompanied him in a duet album in the final months of the jazz master's life, has died. He was 76. The Philadelphia native died at Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital of a blood clot in his lung Wednesday, said his wife, Patricia Ali. Over a career that spanned more than four decades, he performed with artists including Don Cherry, Albert Ayler, Alice Coltrane and Archie Shepp. In recent years he formed The Rashied Ali Quintet, and this year he released a “Live In Europe” album with the group.
