Yehya Khalil
Yehya Khalil (* 1944 in Cairo ) is an Egyptian jazz drummer and band leader.
Live and act
Khalil has been interested in jazz music since he was a child , influenced by broadcasts on the Voice of America radio station . With the founding of the Cairo Jazz Quartet in 1957, at the age of thirteen, he laid the foundation for the jazz scene in Egypt. After a stay in Lebanon, he traveled to New York City in 1966, where he performed in various small jazz clubs. After a year he moved on to Chicago. There he heard musicians like Miles Davis , Elvin Jones , Gábor Szabó and Wes Montgomery at the Mother's Blues Club and met Jim Post , the front man of the band Friend and Lover . He became a member of the band with which he recorded the single Reach out of the Darkness in Atlanta , appeared in a program with Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix and was a guest on the Ed Sullivan Show .
After the band broke up, Khalil returned to Chicago and studied there for two years at the American Music Conservatory . He became the last student of Roy Knapp (who had studied percussionists such as Gene Krupa , Dave Tough , George Wettling , Baby Dodds , Sid Catlett and Louie Bellson ). After training with Knapp, Khalil toured the USA as a jazz musician and performed with jazz legends such as Dizzy Gillespie , Duke Ellington and Herbie Hancock .
In 1979 Khalil returned to Egypt. Since then he has given around 5,000 concerts in over one hundred cities, hosts the program Jazz World on Egyptian television and performs regularly at the Cairo Opera House and the Cairo Jazz Club . In 2007 he gave concerts with his band Egyptian Fusion at the International Jazz Festival in Cape Town, and in 2013 at the Linzfest . He presented several albums under his own name, but also with Mohamed Mounir .
Web links
- Homepage of Yehya Khalil ( Memento from March 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- Portrait (masress)
- Albawaba - And all that jazz: Yehya Khalil in Cairo
- Yehya Khalil Egyptian Fusion (Egypt) ( Memento from January 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- Yehya Khalil at Allmusic (English)
- Yehya Khalil at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cape Town International Jazz Festival 2007 ( Memento from January 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Linzfest 2013
- ↑ Short bio Mohamed Mounir
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Khalil, Yehya |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Egyptian jazz drummer and band leader |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1944 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cairo |