Internationally renowned percussionist and composer Kahil El'Zabar is considered one of the most prolific jazz innovators of his generation. Indeed El'Zabar is a true "Renaissance Man," with a musical ...

Percussionist, kit drummer and composer Kahil El'Zabar founded the Ethnic Heritage Ensemble back in 1977. The group's sixteenth album, the gritty, groovecentric and exquisitely lyrical Spirit Gatherer ...

By Marcus J. Moore Upon first glance, you might not think Kahil El’Zabar, 70, is a spiritual jazz musician. Tall and sprightly with taut skin and a thick mustache, wearing dark sunglasses and a ...

Kahil El’Zabar, born Clifton Blackburn in Chicago in 1953, has performed alongside Dizzy Gillespie, Stevie Wonder, Nina Simone, Paul Simon, and Cannonball Adderley, among many others.

If any Chicago jazz musician transcended boundaries in 2004, it was the master percussionist-provocateur Kahil El’Zabar. Stylistically, El’Zabar ventured into artistic territory that many of ...

If he had to, the Chicago percussionist-bandleader Kahil El’Zabar probably could keep an audience transfixed with nothing more than a pair of sticks. But he had a lot more to work with Thursday ...

So Kahil El’Zabar put it into music. The famed Chicago musician and educator tells Reset how his new album America the Beautiful takes the listener from anger and fear to hope and healing.

Kahil El’Zabar’s Ethnic Heritage Ensemble celebrates 50 years of free and spiritual jazz at the Promontory on February 1. Credit: Christopher Andrew Calling jazz drummer Kahil El’Zabar a ...

Modern Jazz Meets Musical Theatre is co-produced by Steve Elliott, who introduced El'Zabar to The Encore, and to Artistic Director, Dan Cooney, during a recent visit to Ann Arbor. "Kahil was blown ...

“You mean ‘make rhythms,” El’Zabar corrected. “Because we’re making music here.” During the drumming, despite the intensity whirling around him (and some fiery players), El’Zabar ...

Kahil El’Zabar’s Ethnic Heritage Ensemble brings their 50th anniversary celebration to Manchester with a special live show, showcasing music from their acclaimed new album Open Me: A Higher ...