Khan Jamal

Khan Jamal ( born July 23, 1946 in Jacksonville (Florida ) and Robert Warren Cheeseboro ) is an American musician of modern jazz (vibraphone, marimba, Balaphon, piano, percussion).

Khan, who grew up as the son of a piano teacher in Philadelphia, first learned piano and the saxophone. During his music studies at the " Granoff School of Music " and the " Combs College " he took private lessons with vibraphone Bill Lewis. In 1971 he founded with Byard Lancaster, the group "Sound of Liberation "; 1972 was followed by " The Creative Art Ensemble ". From 1973 he was a member, although still operating from Philadelphia from ( where he musical director of the Philadelphia Jazz Foundation was ), the loft jazz scene of New York City. He regularly played with Sunny Murray, Sam Rivers, Don Pullen, David Murray, Frank Lowe, Gary Bartz, Sun Ra and Larry Young. From 1974, he toured several times in Europe, but also appeared at the Newport Jazz Festival on. It was not until the early 1980s he moved to New York where he worked with Ted Daniel, with the " Decoding Society " by Ronald Shannon Jackson and Billy Bang and recorded. In 1984 he performed in a duo with Mal Waldron, 1986 Joe Bonner. In the late 1980s he lived in Scandinavia, where he recorded several albums for Steeplechase Records.

Martin Kunzler, according to Jamal has done similar to Jay Hoggard also make important contributions to the renewal of his idols Bobby Hutcherson Vibraphonspiels next and Walt Dickerson; but he has both elements of African music cultures integrated and amplified into account the blues tradition. In 1988, he won the Kritikerpoll downbeat as vibraphone talent that deserves further attention.

Disco Graphical Notes

• Peace Warrior (1982, 1989, with Byard Lancaster and others)
• Three (1984, with Johnny Dyani, Pierre Dørge )
• Cool (1989, with Dwight James, Warren Ore, John Rodgers )
• Percussion and Strings ( CIMP, 1997) with Dylan Taylor
• Balaphones Dance (2002, with Jemeel Moondoc et al )
• Impressions of Coltrane (2009, with Byard Lancaster and others)

Lexigraphic entries

• Martin Kunzler, Jazz Encyclopedia Vol 1 Reinbek 2002; ISBN 3-499-16512-0