Masters Of Our Craft | Shabaka Hutchings

Shabaka Hutchings is a classically trained musician, who pushes the jazz tradition forward. He is part of the new wave redefining the genre for contemporary audiences. To date, Hutchings has released to critical acclaim seven studio albums and two EPs, alongside featuring on several other albums with highly respected artists.

 
Hutchings was born in 1984 in London. He moved to Barbados at the age of six, began studying classical clarinet aged nine, graduating to tenor saxophone which has been a regular sight across London and the UK since his return aged sixteen.

 
Hutchings has three primary projects – Shabaka and the Ancestors, Sons of Kemet and Comet is Coming. Between them, Hutchings has gathered a substantial number of awards and nominations, including winning the 2013 MOBO ‘Jazz Act of the Year’, winner of the 2014 Paul Hamlyn Composer Award, 2015 Jazz FM Awards ‘Instrumentalist of the Year’, 2016 Mercury Music Prize nomination, 2017 Jazz FM Awards ‘UK Jazz Act of the Year’, 2018 Jazz FM Awards ‘Jazz Innovation of the Year’ and a 2018 Mercury Music Prize nomination.

 
Shabaka continues to sit outside the box, interested in the undefinable gaps and going beyond jazz. To date, Hutchings has released to critical aclaim 7 studio albums and 2 EPs, alongside featuring on several other albums with highly respected artists.
We are very excited to have Shabaka share his musical inspiration on our ‘Masters of our Craft’ Spotify Channel. 
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