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Sons of Kemet

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

January 2024

  • The Smile’s Jonny Greenwood, Tom Skinner and Thom Yorke.

    Kitty Empire's album of the week
    The Smile: Wall of Eyes review – agile, tuneful second album

    With strings and psychedelia added to the mix, Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood’s ever-evolving side project feels as dynamic now as their day job

November 2022

  • Tom Skinner

    Tom Skinner on the Smile, Sons of Kemet and going solo: ‘It gives me a blank slate to explore’

    The Sons of Kemet drummer explains how he’s keeping his cool while launching his debut record, working with Jonny and Thom from Radiohead – and preparing for the birth of his second child

January 2022

  • Theon Cross performing in Leeds.

    Theon Cross review – more oomph than oompah from jazz-tuba champion

  • PEN15<br>Anna is given the opportunity of a lifetime but when her parents won’t let her partake, Maya encourages them to take fate into their own hands and embark on a dangerous journey.

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    The Guide #16: how the streaming revolution is hurting TV’s golden age

July 2021

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

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

    The first full-capacity festival since the pandemic began hosted a series of artists – Sons of Kemet and Self Esteem among them – that show how vibrant the UK’s scene still is

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

October 2018

  • British jazz group Son of Kemet performing at the Koko Club in Camden, London.

    Kitty Empire's artist of the week
    Sons of Kemet review – blown away by a fiery black history lesson

    The Mercury prize-shortlisted London jazz quartet salute women of colour and attack the monarchy on the dazzling first date of their UK tour

October 2015

  • Sons of Kemet 2015

    Sons of Kemet: Lest We Forget What We Came Here to Do review – hooky horns and rapturous drumming

    Forward-thinking London jazzers Sons of Kemet sound even more powerful and unpredictable on their new album

September 2013

January 2012

  • Sons of Kemet/Trevor Watts – review

    The rhythmically attuned Sons of Kemet are already a contender for the best of 2012 lists, writes John Fordham
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