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Akbank Jazz Festival: Shabaka & The Ancestors at Akbank Jazz Festival at Babylon
Courtesy of erimcan erdemir | Posted on October 2, 2017
Where
Babylon
Akbank Jazz Festival
Sehbender Sokak, No. 3
Istanbul
Map
90-212-2927368
When
Thu, November 9, 2017
21:30
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Musicians
About
Years ago, given the tribal name Mzwandile (Home is Extended) during a stay in Cape Town, Shabaka Hutchings was inspired to write fragments of tunes. Thus, he started to trace his real musical roots through his visceral blowing of the saxophone and the eonian call of long-gone spirits. He played with the groups like The Comet is Coming and Sons of Kemet. Reaching out from New Orleans jazz tradition to Carribean calypso rhythms, and from Central Africa’s song forms to Nguni music of South Africa, while seasoning all these with 60’s spiritual jazz and Miles Davis’ Bitches Brew, he created a spacious world of Afro-futuristic improvisation...