Alto and soprano saxophonist Michael Hashim is one of the most accomplished saxophonists currently working in New York. His playing embodies a deep knowledge of earlier styles and the post Charlie Parker experience. 

Hashim has enjoyed a long and fruitful career in which he has played with a wide variety of musicians and traveled the world as a jazz ambassador. As a student at Hobart College, Hashim started his own trio.  From there he attended the Creative Musicians´ Workshop where he studied with avant-garde and post-bop explorers Dave Holland, Lee Konitz, Leroy Jenkins, and Milford Graves.

Residing in New York, he took lessons with instructors as diverse as Jimmy Lyons, Andy McGhee, and Phil Woods. A longtime member of the Widespread Jazz Orchestra (´76-´92), Hashim has also worked with a number of great blues men, including Muddy Waters, Sonny Greer, and Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown. He has led his own quartet since 1979 and has collaborated for years with pianist Mike Ledonne.

In 1992, as part of a Judy Carmichael tour, sponsored by the USIS, Hashim was a member of the first official government-sponsored jazz group to play in China since 1949. A composer for film, TV, and dance, Hashim can be heard on his own albums.

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