RABIAH KABIR TRIO

Rabiah Kabir is a Jazz flute player born and raised in the East Bay who uses her instrument, storytelling, and unique style to bend the expectations of what "Jazz" music really is, drawing from her lived experience as a mixed Black woman to create music that is meditative, contemplative, and conceptual. Her musical memory begins in the kitchen, with her dad playing Charles Mingus, Philip Glass, Erik B. & Rakim, Dead Can Dance, Toots and the Maytals, Compay Segundo, and Natacha Atlas as he cooked dinner in their Berkeley home. As she dove into the Bay Area Jazz scene, she noticed how few women surrounded her — a problem that has plagued Jazz since its inception — leading her to create her debut album "Jezebel: Rewritten" and an accompanying Stanford University Honors Thesis, "The Jezebel Flute," which explores Black womanhood and feminism as a core, often-overlooked part of Jazz history;…