Kahil El'Zabar
Kahil El'Zabar is a jazz multi-instrumentalist and composer. He regularly records for Delmark Records. He attended Lake Forest College and joined the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians in the early 1970s, and became its chairman in 1975. During the 1970s, he formed the musical groups Ritual Trio and the Ethnic Heritage Ensemble, both of which remain active. Musicians with whom Kahil EL'Zabar has collaborated include Dizzy Gillespie, Stevie Wonder, Nina Simone, Cannonball Adderley, Paul Simon, Pharoah Sanders, and Billy Bang. In 2017 the film "Be Known - The Mystery of Kahil El Zabar" by filmmaker Dwayne Johnson-Cochran was released. The documentary follows El' Zabar and band on their 2007 Black History Month tour. The film is currently available on Amazon Prime.Discography
As leader/co-leader
With Ethnic Heritage Ensemble
With Ritual Trio
- The Ritual
- Sacred Love - with
- Another Kind of Groove - with Billy Bang
- Alika Rising
- Renaissance of the Resistance
- Big Cliff - with Billy Bang
- Jitterbug Junction with Ari Brown, Malachi Favors
- Conversations - with Archie Shepp, Ari Brown, Malachi Favors
- Africa N'Da Blues - with Archie Shepp, Ari Brown, Malachi Favors, Pharoah Sanders
- Live at the River East Art Center - with Billy Bang
- ' - with Billy Bang
- Ooh Live - with Pharoah Sanders
- The Ancestors Are Amongst Us
- Follow the Sun
With Tri-Factor'
The Power - with Hamiet Bluiett, Billy Bang If You Believe''As sideman
With David Murray
- A Sanctuary Within
- The Tip
- Jug-A-Lug
With Wadada Leo Smith
- Procession of the Great Ancestry
