Rabiah Kabir Trio

Rabiah Kabir brings a meditative, conceptual, and deeply personal vision of jazz flute to Stookey’s Blue Room — an East Bay-born artist who draws from her lived experience as a mixed Black woman to bend the expectations of what jazz can be, with a musical memory rooted in a Berkeley kitchen where Charles Mingus, Philip Glass, Erik B. & Rakim, Toots and the Maytals, and Compay Segundo all coexisted on the same playlist. Her debut album Jezebel: Rewritten, released October 24, 2025, is accompanied by her Stanford University Honors Thesis “The Jezebel Flute” — a groundbreaking exploration of Black womanhood and feminism in jazz history that won the 2025 Stanford University George Fredrickson Award and is published on Stanford’s Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity department page. A collaborator with Murray Low, Jesús Díaz, Edgardo Cambon, and others, Kabir is one of the Bay Area’s most original and intellectually fearless emerging voices — and an artist whose music is as thought-provoking as it is beautiful.