Marcus Wyatt

Biography
Articles

Benjamin Jephta: Homecoming Revisited

Read "Homecoming Revisited" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
December 15, 2025

At 22 years of age, the up-and-coming Cape Town-reared bassist Benjamin Jephta introduced himself to the wider world via Homecoming (Self Produced, 2015), an engrossing debut featuring South African standouts like tenor saxophonist Sisonke Xonti, trumpeter Marcus Wyatt, pianist Kyle Shepherd, drummer Sphelelo Mazibuko and vocalist Spha Mdlalose. A decade later, he gives us Homecoming Revisted, re-envisioning that material with a large community of collaborators and some hard-won perspective. Opening on “Prayer for... (revisited)," with Mazibuko and percussionist Tlale Makhene ...

138

Album Review

Marcus Wyatt: Africans In Space

Read "Africans In Space" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff
December 9, 2002

Never mind that he's from South Africa. Trumpeter Marcus Wyatt has decided to voyage through space. You can accept whatever double entendre the phrase might suggest, but the point is that the trumpeter and composer takes his group into uncharted territory. After a brief devotional horn introduction on the opening track, “In The Beginning," the group ascends into the deepest, darkest realms occupied by John Coltrane at his most spiritual. In some sense, Wyatt has signalled that he too is ...