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Kahil El'Zabar
Kahil El'Zabar is credited on 147 releases across 42 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1980–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
147
Pressings credited
42
Albums
5
Decades active
6
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
147 releases · 42 albums · active 1980–2025
- Performance · 420
- Other credits · 137
- Production · 26
- Engineering · 1
Studios: Chicago Recording Company · Riverside Studio, Chicago · Ocean Way Recording · Barigozzi Studio
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- Ethnic Heritage Ensemble
- Kahil El'Zabar's Ritual Trio
- Kahil El'Zabar's Ethnic Heritage Ensemble
- Sonia Dada
- Kahil El'Zabar's The Ritual
- Kurt Elling
- John Martyn
- David Murray Quartet
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