CartJUN 9–21 | 38th Annual San Francisco Jazz Festival
Jun 16, 2020
Miner Auditorium
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Original show description below.
ALL SFJAZZ SHOWS AND EVENTS CANCELED THROUGH AUGUST 16
Due to the COVID-19 crisis, we have made the decision to cancel the remainder of the 2019–20 Season, including all shows and education events that were previously scheduled from March 11–May 31, the 38th Annual San Francisco Jazz Festival, which was scheduled from June 9–21, and Summer Sessions 2020 which was scheduled from July 9–August 16.
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In recent years, the most vital, inclusive, and innovative jazz scene on earth has shifted east across the Atlantic to London, and the figure that stands atop this revolution is saxophonist Shabaka Hutchings. A multi-faceted instrumentalist and composer whose influence has spread far beyond the U.K., the Birmingham-raised Hutchings spent the formative years of his youth in Barbados, an island rife with reminders of Britain’s colonial history, where the budding artist first picked up the saxophone and where the seeds of his creative aesthetic in the roots of the African diaspora were planted.
Shabaka and the Ancestors Are Making Their Own Jazz History (New York Times)
Among the first projects Hutchings assembled was the collaborative octet Shabaka and the Ancestors, formed with a group of young South African musicians while the saxophonist was visiting Johannesburg. Bristling with raw energy and deep spiritual power, the alchemy of Hutchings with the modern heirs to the South African jazz tradition is marked by resonances from the music of Sun Ra and Coltrane at his most ecstatic, while feeling resolutely of the moment. The band’s 2016 Brownswood Recordings debut, Wisdom of Elders, was recorded over a single day and is devoted to Hutchings’ “psalm in nine parts” and featuring trumpeter Mandla Mlageni and altoist Mtunzi Myubu – both rising stars of the South African scene.
Now more than ever, the easiest answer to that pesky question — what’s keeping jazz vital these days? — appears to lie in London. And much of the serious activity there runs through Shabaka Hutchings.
The New York Times
Now more than ever, the easiest answer to that pesky question — what’s keeping jazz vital these days? — appears to lie in London. And much of the serious activity there runs through Shabaka Hutchings.
The New York Times
Personnel
Shabaka Hutchings tenor saxophone
Mtunzi Myubu alto saxophone
Mandla Mlangeni trumpet
Nduduzo Makhathini keyboards
Ariel Zamonsky bass
Tumi Mogorosi drums
Gontse Makhene percussion
Siyabanga Mthembu vocals
Hutchings and band know how to bridge eras, musics, and musings on musical evolution.
All Music Guide
Personnel
Shabaka Hutchings tenor saxophone
Mtunzi Myubu alto saxophone
Mandla Mlangeni trumpet
Nduduzo Makhathini keyboards
Ariel Zamonsky bass
Tumi Mogorosi drums
Gontse Makhene percussion
Siyabanga Mthembu vocals
Hutchings and band know how to bridge eras, musics, and musings on musical evolution.
All Music Guide
Watch & Listen
Shabaka and The Ancestors
Go My Heart, Go To Heaven
Shabaka and The Ancestors
Joyous
Shabaka and The Ancestors
Go My Heart, Go To Heaven
Shabaka and The Ancestors
Joyous