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Musician

Every generation has its own leading lights. For the current generation of South African young jazz musicians, pianist, and composer, Nduduzo Makhathini stands as a key torchbearer. It’s useful to note the refreshing virtuosity with which the 34 years old jazzman articulates a decidedly spiritual vision of the world with the piano, and his compositional clarity. Makhathini plays with a bright lyricism and a full sound pallet that gives him a markedly wide melodic vocabulary. His music is as open as it is invigorating. Makhathini commands the sort of remarkable talent and thematic focus that posits him among an illustrious pantheon of forbears

Album

This Is The One! (Raison D'êTre)

By Frank Swart

Label: Need To Know
Released: 2026
Track listing: Possibilities; Sammy's Bump; No Right; That's The Thing, Man; Starship; LTD; Lullaby; Precious And Impermanent.

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The Myth We Choose

By Nduduzo Makhathini

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Kuzodlula; Imvunge KaNtu; Kwamabili; Unembeza; Liyoze Line Nangakithi; What People Say; Primordial Egg; Ekuqaleni; Ḽiṅwalo ḽa Mubebi; Umbono; Ḽiṅwalo ḽa Mubebi (reprise); Tethered; Ongaphesheya; What People Say (reprise); Kuzodlula (reprise); Zimthilili.

Article: Live Review

Detroit Jazz Festival 2026: A Gathering in a Great Jazz City

by Paul Rauch
September 15, 2026

Detroit Jazz Festival 2026 Hart Plaza Detroit, MI September 4-7, 2026 Thursday evening is when artists, media and event staffers begin to file into the Detroit Marriott, arriving from points around the globe. The common purpose is the 47th annual Detroit Jazz Festival, an annual tradition on Labor Day weekend. The ...

Article: History of Jazz

John Coltrane in Detroit: A Brief History

by Paul Rauch
September 8, 2026

When the calendar turned to 2026, a spirit of celebration was sparked in the jazz community. It marked one hundred years from the birth dates of two jazz titans in John Coltrane and Miles Davis. Coltrane departed us in 1967 from cancer, a life of barely more than forty years that changed the course of jazz. ...

Article: In Pictures

Strange Heavens, Sublime Music: Linda May Han Oh Trio at the 2026 Newport Jazz Festival

by Dave Kaufman
August 17, 2026

This year marked the 72nd year of the Newport Jazz Festival and the first with Nate Smith as artistic director, succeeding Christian McBride, who served in that capacity for a decade. It was also my fourth year working the festival as a photographer and photo-essayist, an experience that continues to be one of the high points ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Caesar Frazier, Goldings Bernstein Stewart, Somi, Mike Clark and more

by Benjamin Boddie
August 12, 2026

Today's Music--Right Now! Fantastic music by Caesar Frazier, Clark Sommers, Goldings Bernstein Stewart, Somi, Adrian Younge, Mike Clark, Arman Sangalang, John Clayton, Haruna Fukazawa, Jae Sinnett, Carlos Henriquez, Malcolm Strachan, Reid Hoyson Project, Sarah Sharp, Suzanne Pittson, Bevan Manson, Michael Dease Big Band, Conrad Herwig, Lisa Rich, Andrew Kim, Nicolas Payton, Zaccai Curtis, Emmet Cohen, Nduduzo ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Elias Haslanger, Andrew Kim, Cindy Blackman Santana, Nicolas Payton and more

by Benjamin Boddie
August 6, 2026

Today's Music--Right Now! Fantastic music by Elias Haslanger, Andrew Kim, Brent Birckhead, Zaccai Curtis, Rick Braun, Robert Jospe Quartet, Randy Ingram, Jaana Narsipur, Bob Nell & Michael Bisio, The Holland Court Jazz Trio, Cindy Blackman Santana, Nicolas Payton, The Caeser Pink Quintet, Dawn Clement, Tony Grey, The Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra, Steve Swallow, Bria Skonberg, Jim ...

Article: Live Review

Moldejazz 2026

by Daniel Mège
August 4, 2026

Located at 62°7 North, Moldejazz (the Molde International Jazz Festival) is the ideal place for a festival in week 29, in early summer. A floral scent drifts through The Town of Roses, a ribbon less than a kilometer wide wedged into a peninsula between fjord and mountains. Even once it has set, the sun is never far ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

New Music from Nduduzo Makahthini And More

by Bob Osborne
July 30, 2026

This playlist presents a compelling cross-section of contemporary creative music, bridging the pioneering electric fusion of the late 1960s with the sophisticated and fluid improvisations of 2026. At its core, this selection celebrates the “collaborative impulse" The music here traverses the boundary between the composed and the unscripted. By juxtaposing the foundational studio-as-instrument techniques developed by ...