Shabaka Hutchings

Shabaka Hutchings is a composer, saxophonist, clarinetist, and flutist who helped put England'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 the legendary Impulse! label 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 Comi...