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Shabaka Hutchings
Saxophonist Shabaka Hutchings has established himself as one of the leading
lights of the contemporary British jazz scene with his bands Sons of Kemet, Melt
Yourself Down, The Comet Is Coming, and Shabaka and the Ancestors. Born in
London, England in 1984, he grew up in Barbados, studying clarinet and then
saxophone. Back in the UK, he won BBC Radio 3's New Talent Competition in 2010
and began touring the London jazz scene with Courtney Pine's Jazz Warriors and
Heliocentrics. He then formed his first ensemble, Sons of Kemet, in 2011, which
won a MOBO Award with the album Burn (20...
