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Kahil El'Zabar
Chicago, United States
Kahil El'Zabar is credited on 84 releases across 43 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1980–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
84
Pressings credited
43
Albums
5
Decades active
13
In collections
Biography
Kahil El'Zabar (born Clifton Blackburn; November 11, 1953) is an American jazz multi-instrumentalist (mainly a percussionist) and composer. He regularly records for Delmark Records.
Bio from Wikipedia
Credited work
84 releases · 43 albums · active 1980–2025
- Performance · 258
- Other credits · 68
- Production · 16
- Engineering · 1
Studios: Riverside Studio, Chicago · The Spirit Room · Green Mill · Jazzclub Fasching, Stockholm
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- Ethnic Heritage Ensemble
- Kahil El'Zabar's Ritual Trio
- Archie Shepp
- Kahil El'Zabar's The Ritual Trio
- Kahil El'Zabar's Tri-Factor
- David Murray Quartet
- Leo Smith
- Kahil El'Zabar's The Ritual
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