Kahil El'Zabar

Kahil El'Zabar (* 11. November 1953 in Chicago , Illinois as Clifton Blackburn ) is an American drummer , multi-instrumentalist and composer of the Creative Jazz . He is a member of the AACM and founded the Ethnic Heritage Ensemble .

Kahil El'Zabar, 2008

Live and act

In the 1970s, Kahil El'Zabar was one of the leading musicians in the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), of which he was chairman in 1975. During this period he founded the Ritual Trio and the Ethnic Heritage Ensemble . In the 1980s he worked a. a. with Wadada Leo Smith . Since then he has recorded a number of albums under his own name with musicians such as Billy Bang , Malachi Favors , Lester and Joseph Bowie , Fareed Haque , Hamiet Bluiett , Archie Shepp and Pharoah Sanders . He also worked as a backing musician on David Murray albums in the 1990s , such as The Trip and Jug-A-Lug 1994 and on the album Return Of the Lost Tribe by the formation Bright Moments with Joseph Jarman .

Kahil El'Zabar has also worked with musicians such as Kurt Elling , Dizzy Gillespie , Stevie Wonder , Nina Simone , Cannonball Adderley and Paul Simon during his career .

El'Zabar, like Famoudou Don Moye, relates directly to African rhythms in which he was taught by Atu Harold Murray . The many instruments he uses, such as berimbau , gongs , kettle drums and various flutes, also include an African lamellophone .

1986 - Another Kind of Groove ( sound aspects ) Lester Bowie, Malachi Favors , Raphael Garrett
1990 - Hang Tuff (Open Minds) with Joseph Bowie, Edward Wilkerson
1991 - Dance with the Ancestors (Chamaeleon)
1994 - Big Cliff (Delmark) with Billy Bang, Malachi Favors
1995 - 21st Century Union March (Silkheart) with Joseph Bowie, Edward Wilkerson
1997 - Jitterbug Junction (CIMP) with Art Brown , Malachi Favors
1998 - Paps's Bounce (CIMP) with Joseph Bowie, Ernest Dawkins , Atu Harold Murray
1999 - Freedom Jazz Dance ( Delmark ) with Fareed Haque
1999 - Spirits Entering (Delmark) with Billy Bang
1999 - The Power (CIMP) with Hamiet Bluiett
1999 - Conversations (Delmark) with Archie Shepp, Ari Brown , Malachi Favors
1999 - Africa N'Da Blues (Delmark) with Archie Shepp, Ari Brown, Malachi Favors, Pharoah Sanders
2000 - One World Family (CIMP) with David Murray
2007 - Transmigration (Delmark) with Joseph Bowie, Ernest Dawkins , orchestra

Ethnic Heritage Ensemble: Three Gentlemen From Chicago (Moers Music, ca.1980) with Edward Wilkerson, Henry Huff
Ethnic Heritage Ensemble: The Continuum (Delmark, 1997) with Joseph Bowie

Joachim Ernst Berendt and Günther Huesmann: The Jazz Book - Revised by Günther Huesmann . Frankfurt / M., Fischer Verlag.
Richard Cook , Brian Morton : The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD . 6th edition. Penguin, London 2002, ISBN 0-14-051521-6 .

personal data
SURNAME	El'Zabar, Kahil
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Blackburn, Clifton (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American jazz drummer and composer
DATE OF BIRTH	November 11, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH	Chicago , Illinois