Emmanuel Khaliq Abdul-Rahim (1934), born Juan Amalbert, was an American jazz percussionist and music educator from Harlem, New York City. Abdul-Rahim studied at Yale University and the Berklee College of Music. In the early 1960s, performing as Juan Amalbert, he led a Latin Jazz Quintet that recorded the albums Mucho Mucho with Shirley Scott and Caribé with Eric Dolphy. He also performed on Duke Ellington’s My People Original Cast Album. In 1966, Abdul-Rahim performed with the John Coltrane Sextet at the Village Vanguard. He recorded a session with Pharoah Sanders that was released as the album Oh! Pharoah Speak in 1971. During the 1970s, Abdul-Rahim performed with Art Blakey, Clark Terry, and James Moody, and released the solo album Total Submission. He moved to Denmark in 1977 and recorded the African-influenced suite Harlem in 1988. Abdul-Rahim returned to the United States in 2005 and died in 2022.
