Rabih Abou-Khalil

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Rabih Abou-Khalil (Jazz Festival Neuwied 2006)

Rabih Abou-Khalil ( Arabic ربيع أبو خليل, DMG Rabīʿ Abū Ḫalīl ; * August 17, 1957 in Beirut , Lebanon ) is a Lebanese composer , oud player and jazz musician . He has lived in Munich since 1978, where most of his albums are produced by Enja Records .

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Abou-Khalil studied Arabic and Western music at the Beirut Art Academy. In 1978 he fled the Lebanese civil war to Munich , where he studied flute with Walter Theurer . His main instrument, however, remained the oud , the oriental short-necked lute (forerunner of the European lute , origin of the term in Arabic: al-ʿūd ).

Geoff Dyer wrote: "Abou-Khalil does not experiment, he searches. It is a rhythm-driven search steeped in tradition. Traditions, or better said: Arab music, jazz, blues. Music that looks forward, so to speak, completely immersed in the past."

The most important basis of his compositions and playing style is the Arabic music tradition , which he develops further by means of improvisation as a modern way of playing music and which he is sometimes able to successfully place in a jazz context.

Abou-Khalil prefers to work with “border crossers” such as the Kronos Quartet , the Ensemble Modern , the Balanescu Quartet and the ARTE Quartet as well as jazz musicians such as Charlie Mariano , Kenny Wheeler , Joachim Kühn and the world musician Glen Velez . Since the 1990s he has appeared at major jazz festivals around the world. In 2002 he received an honorary certificate for the German Record Critics Award for his complete works. Since 2003 he has performed in a formation with Michel Godard , Gabriele Mirabassi , Luciano Biondini and Jarrod Cagwin , to which the Sardinian singer and saxophonist Gavino Murgia joined since 2004 .

With over 500,000 records sold, Abou-Kahlil is one of the top sellers on the German jazz market. In 1999 alone, the German Phono Academy awarded him five German Jazz Awards based on the amount sold . His records and CDs also made famous artists who played on it, such as Howard Levy and Ramesh Shotham . The frame drum players Glen Velez and Nabil Khaiat were the rhythm givers of his early music projects ; Jarrod Cagwin has replaced her for the past 15 years.

In 2006 Abou-Khalil also performed with the BBC Symphony Orchestra ; the corresponding album was only released in 2010. In that year he could also be heard with the ARTE Quartet .

Discography

  • Bitter Harvest (1984)
  • Between Dusk And Dawn (1987)
  • Nafas (1988)
  • Bukra (1988)
  • Roots and Sprouts (1990)
  • Al-Jadida (1991) (DE: Gold in the Jazz Award)
  • Blue Camel (1992) (DE: Gold in the Jazz Award)
  • Tarab (1993) (DE: Gold in the Jazz Award)
  • Sultan's Picnic (1994) (DE: Gold in Jazz Award)
  • Arabian Waltz (1996) (DE: Gold in the Jazz Award)
  • Odd Times (1997) (DE: Gold in Jazz Award)
  • Yara (1999) (DE: Gold in the Jazz Award)
  • Cactus Of Knowledge (2001) (DE: Gold in the Jazz Award)
  • Il Sospiro (2002)
  • Morton's Foot (2003)
  • Journey to the Center of an Egg (2005, with Joachim Kühn )
  • Songs for Sad Women (2007)
  • Em Português (2008)
  • Selection (1988–2008, compilation)
  • Trouble in Jerusalem (2010)
  • Hungry People (2012)
  • The Flood and the Fate of the Fish (2019)

Award

Web links

Commons : Rabih Abou-Khalil  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gold / platinum database of the Federal Association of the Music Industry, accessed on June 18, 2016
  2. ↑ meeting
personal data
SURNAME Abou-Khalil, Rabih
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lebanese composer, oud player and jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH 17th August 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Beirut , Lebanon