Artist / Composer / Producer

http://www.shabakahutchings.com/

Shabaka Hutchings is a composer, producer, saxophonist, clarinetist, and flutist who helped put UK's 21st century jazz scene on the map with Courtney Pine's Jazz Warriors and as a founding member of the Heliocentrics. He signed a deal with legendary label Impulse! to record his own groups, including the modernist Sons of Kemet, who issued 2018's Your Queen Is a Reptile and 2021's Black to the Future. Further, Shabaka and the Ancestors is a jazz project based in South Africa, and Hutchings also co-leads the electro-acoustic, avant-futurist jazz-rock-dance trio the Comet Is Coming, who released the widely acclaimed The Afterlife and Trust in the Lifeforce of the Deep Mystery in 2019. In 2022, he released the solo EP Afrikan Culture.

Collaborations: Jazz Warriors, Heliocentrics, Sons of Kemet, The Comet Is Coming,  Shabaka and the Ancestors, London Brew, The Brother Moves On, Nightmares on Wax, Soccer96, Afriquoi, Chelsea Carmichael, Hieroglyphic Being, Melt Yourself Down, CoN & KwAkE, Vels Trio, Makaya McCraven, MABUTA, Zara McFarlane, Ben MArc, Khalab, Roxanne Tataei and Billy Woods.

Remixes: Jazz Is Dead, The Brother Moves On

Manager: Carol Crabtree / Jess Plummer / Assistant: Dan Irani 

Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace

2024

(Impulse! Records)

Afrikan Culture

2022

(Impulse! Records)