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Jazz Musician of the Day: Rabih Abou-Khalil

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All About Jazz is celebrating Rabih Abou-Khalil's birthday today!

The oud virtuoso Rabih Abou Khalil was born in Beirut Lebanon in 1957 and grew up during the two decades when Beirut was on of the most cosmopolitan of all cities. He studied traditional Arabic music on the oud, western classical music on the flute and was exposed at home to both rock and jazz. In 1978 he moved to Munich Germany due to the Lebanese civil war and continued his study of classical flute... Read more.

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