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 ...

Last summer, the restlessly creative Chicago percussionist Kahil El’Zabar unveiled one of the most dynamic ensembles of his career, the Experimental Band. During its weekly engagements at ...

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 ...

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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 ...

and they can recontextualize music outside its original genre. Djinji Brown approaches Kahil El'Zabar's "Running in the Streets" with an appropriately light touch.