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Nduduzo Makhathini makes an exclusive Cape Town appearance at the Norval airing In the Spirit of Ntu, writes SHIRLEY GUELLER
Nine albums, with the 10th one mixed, mastered and awaiting launch, the Standard Bank Jazz Artist for 2015, and SAMA and All Africa Music Awards winner, jazz composer, singer, pianist and PhD candidate, Nduduzo Makhathini is one of the most powerful figures in the world of jazz in South Africa today – and one who is larger than life!
He also heads up the music department at the University of Fort Hare, writes a blog, and is a family man with Omagugu Makhathini – his singer and teacher wife – who together have three children aged 10, 13 and 19.
He will be in Cape Town on Friday, 1 October and Saturday 2 October 2021, to present an exclusive preview of his latest album, In the Spirit of Ntu, both at the Norval Foundation in Tokai and streamed online through the Quicket platform for two days.
Joining Nduduzo Makhathini for these performances will be three young men from the National Youth Band, which he mentored during the Virtual National Arts Festival this year: Jed Petersen (saxophone), Dane Paris (drums) and Stephen de Souza (double bass).
His has prestigious international (New York Winter Jazz Fest, Blue Note Jazz Club
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Blindfold Test: Nduduzo Makhathini
By Michael Jackson I Jan. 2, 2024
Much powerful and resonant music has emanated from South Africa and, in part due to the reprehensible cultural scatter and exile caused by apartheid, only occasionally has the world paid enough attention. The blend of bittersweet serenity, melancholy and inner-mounting flame in the oeuvres of Abdullah Ibrahim and Bheki Mseleku — back-filtered through the transatlantic diaspora and Ellington, Monk and McCoy Tyner — has been absorbed by Nduduzo Makhathini, who has emerged over the course of 10 leader albums into a perennially questing, paradoxically grounded force. His sophomore album on Blue Note, In The Spirit Of Ntu, strives to distill spiritual essence and cleave closer to universal truths. A philosopher wont to deliver articulate thesis statements between bouts at the piano, Makhathini is, onstage and in person, uncommonly warm and receptive. His first Blindfold Test mixed curveballs and shoe-ins at the Detroit Jazz Festival, where he triumphantly culminated a U.S. tour with drummer Francisco Mela and bassist Zwelakhe-Duma Bell le Pere.
Sean Bergin & Ernst Reijseger
“For The Folks Back Home” (Mistakes, Broken, 1979) Bergin, tenor saxophone; Reijseger, cello.
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