Soothing jazz to end the weekend on
Shabaka Hutchings is a saxophonist, band leader and composer, part of London's community of younger jazz musicians as well as the city's thriving improvised music scene.
SHABAKA and the Ancestors is a musical collaboration between UK based Shabaka Hutchings and the cream of contemporary Jazz in South Africa.
The band released its album, Wisdom of the Elders, in September 2016 and will perform at The Rainbow at 23 Stanfield Lane, Pinetown on Sunday, 5 February, doors open at 1pm.
Shabaka Hutchings is a saxophonist, band leader and composer, part of London’s community of younger jazz musicians as well as the city’s thriving improvised music scene.
For Hutchings, composition is a chronicle of the zeitgeist inhabited by a composer – an exposition of his or her search for meaning and the structuring of experiences in aid of recognising this meaning when it appears.
As part of the Caribbean diaspora, he sees his role as that of pushing the boundaries of what musical elements are considered to be Caribbean.
Constantly evaluating the nature of his relationship with musical material and tradition, he describes his attempts at composition as wrestling matches with questions of where and how the Caribbean can be encoded, and what happens when it is exposed to the western classical music cannon.
Hutchings’ primary project is the group Sons of Kemet, which won the 2013 MOBO Award for Jazz Act of the Year.
Through his work with South African musicians such as drummer, Louis Moholo and trumpeter, Mandla Mlangeni, he has been visiting and gigging in the country since 2014.
The Shabaka and the Ancestors’ project was a natural progression from musical collaborations.
On tour, Hutchings will be joined by Siya Mthembu, lead vocalist of The Brother Moves On, saxophonist, Mthunzi Mvubu, drummer, Tumi Mogorosi, bassist, Ariel Zamonsky and percussionist, Gontse Makhene.
Tickets are R120 at webticket.co.za.
For infomation e-mail Nicola at nicola@therainbow.co.za or call 031 702 9161.
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