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Kahil El'Zabar

On 14 March 2023, Kahil El'Zabar was a guest on Angel Bat Dawid. Kahil El'Zabar has been played over 20 times on NTS, first on 25 June 2013. Kahil El'Zabar's music has been featured on 21 episodes.

Kahil El'Zabar is a contemporary Chicago area jazz percussionist. He is a longtime member and former president of Chicago's Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, and collaborates with many musicians from that music collective. He is a founding member of Kahil El'Zabar's Ritual Trio comprising him and Ari Brown (sax) and Malachi Favors (bs), and the Ethnic Heritage Ensemble alternately with Ernest Dawkins and Ed Wilkerson, Jr.. El'Zabar frequently collaborates with Billy Bang and has also collaborated with Pharoah Sanders and Archie Shepp. Kahil El'Zabar's music has many elements from African music; he himself aside from drum set also plays African thumb harp and djembe, among numerous other percussion instruments from all across the world. El'Zabar's pieces are typically groove-oriented and innovative, though by no means inaccessible.

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Kahil El'Zabar

On 14 March 2023, Kahil El'Zabar was a guest on Angel Bat Dawid. Kahil El'Zabar has been played over 20 times on NTS, first on 25 June 2013. Kahil El'Zabar's music has been featured on 21 episodes.

Kahil El'Zabar is a contemporary Chicago area jazz percussionist. He is a longtime member and former president of Chicago's Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, and collaborates with many musicians from that music collective. He is a founding member of Kahil El'Zabar's Ritual Trio comprising him and Ari Brown (sax) and Malachi Favors (bs), and the Ethnic Heritage Ensemble alternately with Ernest Dawkins and Ed Wilkerson, Jr.. El'Zabar frequently collaborates with Billy Bang and has also collaborated with Pharoah Sanders and Archie Shepp. Kahil El'Zabar's music has many elements from African music; he himself aside from drum set also plays African thumb harp and djembe, among numerous other percussion instruments from all across the world. El'Zabar's pieces are typically groove-oriented and innovative, though by no means inaccessible.

Original source: Last.fm

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