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Shabaka Hutchings

June 2024

  • Billie Eilish and Shabaka Hutchings.

    Best culture of 2024 so far
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  • Shabaka holding a Japanese shakuhachi flue, Corinne Bailey Rae holding a Marxophone, and Nilüfer Yanya holding an electric guitar

    ‘If I lost this flute, it would be pretty tragic’: Shabaka, Corinne Bailey Rae and Nilüfer Yanya on their favourite instruments

April 2024

  • Shabaka Hutchings 2314 - credit - atibaphoto

    Shabaka: Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace review – an elegant rebirth

    British jazz star Shabaka Hutchings drops the sax for reeds and flutes on an album exploring fear, courage and the power of breathwork

March 2024

  • ‘Life changing’ … Shabaka Hutchings says learning the flute has made him a better sax player.

    ‘I don’t want to be a legacy performer’: why Britain’s hottest jazz star is giving up his sax for the flute

    Shabaka Hutchings is at the height of his powers as a saxophonist – but has given it up to play a Japanese flute that takes years to master. In London and Brazil, the multiple Mercury nominee explains why he has to resist the easy path, even if it puts his livelihood at risk

September 2023

  • a man wearing a mask

    Kofi Flexxx: Flowers in the Dark review – jazz-hip-hop ensemble masterminded by Shabaka Hutchings

    The Sons of Kemet frontman joins forces with associates including Alan Hawkins and Daisy George in an expansive collaboration that’s more than the sum of its parts

March 2023

  • Top: Nikolaj Torp Larsen; middle row, left to right: Dave Okumu, Tom Herbert, Benji B; bottom row, left to right: Dan See, Raven Bush, Nubya Garcia, Shabaka Hutchings.

    ‘It’s a rockstar album’: the UK jazz musicians marking five decades of Miles Davis’s Bitches Brew

  • Shabaka Hutchings leads the Comet Is Coming at the Mill, Birmingham.

    The Comet Is Coming review – a blast of jazz from another world

December 2022

  • (from left) Nilüfer Yanya, Rhian Teasdale, Sherelle, Shabaka Hutchings and Eliza Rose, photographed at Lafayette London.

    ‘Things need to die for something else to come through’: Wet Leg, Nilüfer Yanya, Shabaka Hutchings and more on the year in music

    Eliza Rose, Shabaka Hutchings, Sherelle, Rhian Teasdale and Nilüfer Yanya gather for our annual roundtable on the state of the music industry, discussing self-care, plagiarism allegations, post-release editing – and Kanye

May 2022

  • Shabaka Hutchings

    Shabaka: Afrikan Culture review – open-ended shimmer

    The saxophonist’s debut solo outing is a shift towards the meditative, but still crackles with his signature energy

November 2021

  • Nubya Garcia.

    Black British culture matters
    The beat goes on: the new British jazz messengers

    The UK jazz renaissance shows no sign of letting up and – from Nubya Garcia to Xhosa Cole – it’s a fresh wave of Black talent that’s pushing things forward

July 2021

  • ‘Vitality and charm’ ... Griff performs at Latitude 2021.

    Latitude festival review: a hyper-real return to glitter, beer and British musical brilliance

  • Canadian trumpeter Kenny Wheeler, who features on Journeys in Modern Jazz: Britain 1965-1972.

    Jazz album of the month
    Journeys in Modern Jazz: Britain 1965-1972 review – a pivotal period

June 2021

  • Steam Down, with Ahnansé, centre.

    ‘We could lose it all’: UK jazz tries to get its groove back after Covid

    The world-class British jazz scene was hit hard by the pandemic. As live shows and in-person collaboration resume, Steam Down, Soweto Kinch and more discuss the future

May 2021

  • Edward Wakili-Hick, Tom Skinner, Theon Cross and Shabaka Hutchings, AKA Sons of Kemet

    Kitty Empire's album of the week
    Sons of Kemet: Black to the Future review – an eloquent dance between anger and joy

    Shabaka Hutchings and co’s urgent fourth album lifts the spirits and feeds the soul

November 2020

  • Brings his own jazz-influenced animation ... Shabaka Hutchings and the Britten Sinfonia conducted by Geoffrey Paterson.

    Shabaka Hutchings/Britten Sinfonia/Paterson review - tangible exhilaration

  • Parker … died at the age of 34, crippled by heroin addiction.

    'He'll make your head explode': sax stars on the genius and tragedy of Charlie Parker

June 2020

  • Moses Boyd

    British jazz acts mark Black Lives Matter, Grenfell and Windrush

    London jazz club hosts virtual concert with work inspired by themes of race, identity and immigration

May 2020

  • Nubya Garcia performing at Jazz Middelheim festival, Antwerp, August 2019.

    Add some township jive! How London's jazz scene set itself apart

    The city’s young jazz community has flourished by drawing on everything from hip-hop to calypso and highlife, creating a unique cosmopolitan sound

March 2020

  • Shabaka and the Ancestors.

    Shabaka and the Ancestors: We Are Sent Here By History review – shamanic lyricism

  • Shabaka Hutchings

    ‘History needs to be set alight’: Shabaka Hutchings on the radical power of jazz

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