Nduduzo Makhathini Trio

Dinner Special:
Roast Chicken with Tamari & Dry Farmed Early Girls
Rice
Sesame Green Beans
*meat or veggie chili will be available to order at the counter

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Nduduzo Makhathini is an improvisor, scholar and musicologist at the University of KwaZulu-Natal school of the arts with a PhD in music.

Makhathini is also a multi award-winning artist and internationally acclaimed musician from Pietermaritzburg in KwaZulu-Natal. As a bandleader, Makhathini holds twelve albums under his belt and he features on many as a sideman and producer. He is currently signed to Blue Note Records and has a busy tourist schedule that keeps him relevant in current jazz practices and discourses. Makhathini has collaborated with Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Centre Orchestra, Richard Bona, Hamilton de Holanda, (the late) Zim Ngqawana, Omagugu, Shabaka Hutchings, Black Coffee, Thandiswa Mazwai, Mbuso Khoza and most recently, the WDR Big Band.

Currently, Makhathini is performing his recent offering uNomkhubulwane (2024) out on Blue Note Records. uNomkhubulwane is understood to be a mythical rain goddess who regulates fertility through the language of water. The album is underpinned by an understanding of mythical institutions of Nguni peoples of Southern Africa, their connection to the cosmos and how that relates to their ingoma dance.

Nduduzo Makhathini Website
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