Kahil El'Zabar's Ritual Trio The Awakening Juba Collective Lester Bowie Ensemble Shadow Vignettes Joshua Abrams' Cloud Script Fred Anderson Legacy Band
ex The Elvin Jones Jazz Machine
ex The Elvin Jones Jazz Machine
American free jazz saxophonist, composer and educator (born February 1, 1944). Prominent member of the AACM, which he joined in 1971.
ALBUMS
Natural Information Society Community Ensemble* With Ari Brown
Since Time Is Gravity
2023
Ari Brown
Groove Awakening
2013, CD, Album, Delmark Records
Ari Brown
Live At The Green Mill
2007, CD, Album, Liv, Delmark Records
Ari Brown, Earma Thompson, John Brumbach
Madam Queen
2007, CD, Album, The Sirens Records
Ari Brown
Venus
1998, CD, Delmark Records, Delmark Records
Ari Brown
Ultimate Frontier
1996
Kahil El'Zabar's The Ritual Trio* With Ari Brown + Malachi Favors
Alika Rising At Leverkusener Jazztage
1990
Moye*, Brown*, Raashiek*
Jam For Your Life
1985
Famoudou Don Moye - Ari Brown
Live At The Progressive Arts Center
1982, LP, L'Orsa Maggiore
Kahil El'Zabar's Ritual Trio With Malachi Favors & Ari Brown Featuring Pharoah Sanders
Africa N'da Blues
Famoudou Don Moye
Jam For Your Life!
1991
Fred Anderson Legacy Band
Legacy Live • Volume One
2018, CD, Album, Asian Improv Records
Juba Collective
Juba Collective
2002, CD, 
,
, House/Spoken Word
Lester Bowie Ensemble
Jazzbühne Berlin '82
1990
Shadow Vignettes
Birth Of A Notion
1986
The Awakening
Brand New Feeling
1976
The Awakening
Mirage
1973
The Awakening
Hear, Sense And Feel
1972
APPEARANCES +
The Katalyst Conversation
Live In Brussels
2024, LP, Katalyst Entertainment
Isaiah Collier & The Chosen Few
The Almighty
2024
Mike Reed
The Separatist Party
2023
Joshua Abrams
Music For Life Itself & The Interrupters
2020, 43xFile, MP3, 320, Eremite Records
Joshua Abrams' Cloud Script
Cloud Script
2020, Vinyl Gatefold, 
,
, Avant-garde Jazz/Free Jazz/Contemporary Jazz
Mwata Bowden
1 Foot In 1 Foot Out
2019, CD, Album, Asian Improv Records
Anthony Braxton
Sextet (Parker) 1993
2018, 11xCD + Box, Album, Ltd, New Braxton House
Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society*
Simultonality
2017
Rajiv Halim
Foundation
2015, CD, Album, Milah Productions
Kahil El'Zabar's Ritual Trio
Alika Rising!
2015
Lester Bowie
The Great Pretender / Steel + Breath
2014, CD, Album, RE + CD, Jazzwerkstatt, Jazzwerkstatt, 
,
, Free Jazz/Contemporary Jazz
Dee Alexander
Songs My Mother Loves
2014, CD, Album, Blujazz
Kahil El'Zabar's Ritual Trio
Follow The Sun
2013, CD, Album, Delmark Records
DJ Mitsu The Beats
Solid Black
2012, CD, Comp, Mixed, Snow Dog Records, Black Jazz Records, 
,
, Soul-Jazz/Jazz-Funk
Famoudou Don Moye, Sun Percussion Summit And More*
For Bobo (Oscar Brown III)
2010, CD, Album, AECO Records, Katalyst Entertainment
Kahil El'Zabar's Ritual Trio Featuring Pharoah Sanders
Ooh Live!
2008
Tammy McCann
Classic
2007
Kahil El'Zabar's Ritual Trio Featuring Billy Bang
Big M, A Tribute To Malachi Favors
2006, CD, Album, Delmark Records
Willie Pickens
Jazz Spirit 2
2006, CD, Album, Southport
Kahil El'Zabar's Ritual Trio With Special Guest Billy Bang
Live At The River East Art Center
2005
Oliver Lake Steel Quartet
Dat Love
2004, CD, Album, Passin' Thru Records
John Martyn
On The Cobbles
2004, CD, 
Various
Chicago's Avant Today
2003, CD, Delmark Records,
Various
Jazz Bizniz 3 - Independent: Jazz, Soul And Outernational Sounds
2003
8FatFat8 / Juba Collective
Live Together / Papa's Bounce
2002, 12", W/Lbl, Not On Label
Kahil El'Zabar's Ritual Trio Featuring Pharoah Sanders
Africa N'da Blues
2000
Archie Shepp Meets Kahil El'Zabar's Ritual Trio
Conversations
1999
Various
CIMPosium - Volume 4
1998, CD, Comp, CIMP, CIMP
Kahil El'Zabar's Ritual Trio
Jitterbug Junction
1997, CD, CIMP
Various
A Chicago Jazz Tour
1997
Various
The Best Of Black Jazz Records 1971-1976
1996, 2x Vinyl Gatefold, ,
, Soul-Jazz/Jazz-Funk
Malachi Thompson & Africa Brass Featuring Lester Bowie
Buddy Bolden's Rag {100 Years Of Jazz}
1995, CD, Album, Delmark Records, ,
, Big Band/Post Bop/Ragtime/Afro-Cuban Jazz
Anthony Braxton
Anthony Braxton's Charlie Parker Project 1993
1995
Kahil El'Zabar's Ritual Trio Special Guest Billy Bang
Big Cliff
1995
Kahil El'Zabar Ritual Trio*
Renaissance Of The Resistance
1994
Lester Bowie
Works
1988
Frank Gordon
Clarion Echoes
1985
Gregory Bibb
Touching Me
1984, LP, M.O.M.M.
Various
Jazzbühne Berlin '82
1983, LP, AMIGA,
Big Band/Instrumental
Lester Bowie
All The Magic!
1983
Ship Of The Desert
Oasis
1982, LP, Album, Cash Ear Records, ,
, Funk/Disco
Loveship
Loveship
1982, LP, Album, Cash Ear Records, Cash Ear Records
Luba Raushiek*
Luba
1981
Ghalib Ghallab
Morning Sunrise
1980, LP, Ménage Productions
Elvin Jones Jazz Machine*
Soul Train
1980
Gregory James*
Gonna Grow Some Gold
1979, LP, Album, Kelli-Arts Records
Frank Walton
Reality
1978
Clarence Wheeler & The Enforcers
Inseparable / Calling Card
1976, 7", Grits Records, ,
, Soul-Jazz
The Niambi Big Band
Doin Basie's Thing / Brass Winds
1976, 7", Not On Label (The Niambi Big Band Self-Released)
The Emotions
Flowers
1976, Vinyl Santa Maria Pressing, ,
, Soul
Muhal Richard Abrams
Things To Come From Those Now Gone
1975
Cleveland Eaton
Plenty Good Eaton
1975, ,
, Jazz-Funk/Free Funk/Funk/Disco
Eldee Young
Live!
LP, Album, Ambitious Records
The Bill Meredith Band
Tricentennial Boogie / Thinkin´ Of Ray
7", Magic Touch Records
Various
Spiritual Jazz 7 - Islam (Modal, Esoteric & Progressive Jazz Inspired By Islam 1957-1988)
2017
Various
Chicago Jazz
2003, CD, Comp, Delmark Records
Various
Delmark Records - 45 Years Of Jazz And Blues
1998, 2xCD, Comp, Delmark Records,
Kahil El'Zabar
Dakota Bar 2002
2005, 2xCD, Unofficial, Pap, OMX
Various
Modern Sax
CD, Unofficial, Par Media Music, 
