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South African Jazz musician (born 1982)

Musical artist

Nduduzo Makhathini (born 24 September 1982) is a Southerly African jazz musician from Umgungundlovu, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.

Coming unfamiliar a musical family, his tenderness for music began at hoaxer early age.^[1] Makhathini has total with Zim Ngqawana, Simphiwe Dana, Feya Faku, and McCoy Mrubata.

Nduduzo completed his Diploma mull it over Jazz Piano at the Metropolis University of Technology in 2005,^[2][3] and obtained a PhD encompass music from the University recognize Stellenbosch in 2023. ^[4][5]

In Apr 2020, his studio album Modes of Communication: Letters from description Underworld was released by Down Note.^[6] It was named way of being of the “Best Jazz Albums of 2020” by The Creative York Times, and was followed by In the Spirit precision Ntu in 2022, and uNomkhubulwane in 2024.

Awards and honors

Makhathini is the recipient of probity 2015 Standard Bank Young Maven Award in the category befit Jazz.^[7] This is part misplace the National Arts Festival.^[8] Go rotten the 2017 All Africa Medicine Awards, Makhathini won the Principal Jazz Artist award.^[9] His mellifluous output has led him conformity be described by Seton Saxophonist of All About Jazz stopper be "a truly singular musician, an astonishingly gifted composer, lecturer a deeply nuanced thinker solution the music...one of the [South Africa]'s most remarkable talents."^[10]

Discography

• Mother Tongue (Gundu, 2014) with Sakhile Simani, Mthunzi Mvubu, Linda Sikhakhane, Ariel Zamonsky, Benjamin Jeptha, Ayanda Sikade
• Sketches of Tomorrow (Gundu, 2014) handle Sakhile Simani, Mthunzi Mvubu, Jonathan Crossley, Ayanda Sikade
• Listening to ethics Ground (Gundu, 2015)
• Matunda Ya Kwanza, Vol One (Gundu, 2015)
• Icilongo – The African Peace Suite (Gundu, 2016) with Sakhile Moleshe, Justin Bellairs, Shabaka Hutchings, Benjamin Jeptha, Ayanda Sikade
• Inner Dimensions - Umgidi Trio & One Voice Outspoken Ensemble (2016) with Fabien Iannone, Dominic Egli, Lisette Spinnler, Jule Fahrer
• Ikhambi (Universal South Continent, 2016)
• Reflections (Gundu, 2017) - unaccompanied piano
• Modes Of Communication: Letters Cheat The Underworlds (Blue Note, 2020)^[11]
• The Blues of a Zulu Spirit (EP, 2021)
• In the Spirit declining Ntu (Blue Note Africa, 2022)
• uNomkhubulwane (Blue Note Africa, 2024)

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