Ethnic Heritage Ensemble Concert

1 rue aristide briand

Born in Chicago, Kahil El'Zabar studied at Lake Forest College and joined the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians in the early 1970s, becoming its president in 1975. During this decade, he founded the bands Ritual Trio and Ethnic Heritage Ensemble, still active today. A jazz composer and multi-instrumentalist (primarily percussionist), Kahil El’Zabar records regularly for Delmark Records. Among the musicians he has collaborated with are Cannonball Adderley, Billy Bang, Dizzy Gillespie, David Murray, Pharoah Sanders…