Talib Ahmad Dawood (formerly Alfonso Nelson Rainey,[1] born January 26, 1923, on Antigua; died 9 July 1999, New York City) was an American jazz trumpeter.
Dawud came from Antigua and Barbuda, taking lessons from his father, a trumpeter who played in marching bands; his mother was a singer who accompanied herself on piano.
After studying at the Juilliard School in 1940, he played with Tiny Bradshaw, Louis Armstrong, Benny Carter, Andy Kirk, Jimmie Lunceford, Roy Eldridge with further swing orchestras.
As a member of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, which distanced itself from the Nation of Islam, he wrote numerous articles in the African-American Chicago daily New Crusader on the controversy between Elijah Muhammad and Malcolm X.
[3] In his later years he took up the study of martial arts in his native country Antigua and became a multi degree black belt in three disciplines and sensei.