Talk:Hasaan Ibn Ali

Birth name
Non-primary sources give his surname as Langford. Details of primary sources indicating that it may have been Lankford are given on User talk:HomageToDonByas.

Changin name to muslim syntax
Helo. Do you knoe something about why and when he was changing is name or also his identity to muslim style? Greatings --178.197.230.144 (talk) 13:21, 25 October 2019 (UTC)
 * There's not much more readily available information about him than is here. At least there wasn't when the article was improved a few years ago; I haven't looked since then. There's a summary of some newspaper sources here, which suggests that he used a version of his Muslim name as early as 1949. Musicians often used or were referred to by either name for a long period, so it's difficult to be sure about when the change first happened. I also don't know if he changed his name officially or unofficially, or why he changed it. Maybe one day someone will find and publish more information about him. EddieHugh (talk) 11:34, 26 October 2019 (UTC)

New information
Does this AllMusic review of Metaphysics: The Lost Atlantic Album, throw any further light on the subject ? Or indeed do the liner notes to the album, which AllMusic describe as "an obsessively detailed liner essay by (Alan) Sukoenig with abundant quotes from (Odean) Pope" ? Not my thing at all, but others might like to explore. Thanks. - Derek R Bullamore (talk) 21:32, 8 April 2021 (UTC)

The Grove Jazz dictionary is wrong.
The fire at his parent's house happened in 1972 (liner notes to Metaphysics) (April 19, 1974, p. 14, Philadelphia Daily News "Resident of 2400 N. Gratz Street looks at debris left by a fire at 2406 N. Gratz Street.  Neighbors claim the fire was two years ago and city officials have not heeded many requests to have the mess cleaned up.")   Astonishingly, neither the Inquirer or the Daily News have coverage of the fire, which was barely a mile from the Temple campus and killed two people. I'll check the Bulletin the next time I make a run to a library that has it on microfilm. The liner notes state that he had a stroke shortly afterwards and was confined to a nursing home. No other sources, and there was no death announcement (I guess his parents were his only surviving relatives). — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lionelag (talk • contribs) 17:04, 2 June 2021 (UTC)
 * I think you mean the Jazz Inside source, quoting Pope, not Grove. I have also looked, in vain, for more information on the fire. EddieHugh (talk) 17:43, 2 June 2021 (UTC)