Nduduzo Makhathini: In the Spirit of Ntu etjs-launch-feb-02-2024 The precocious and prodigious drummer

The precocious and prodigious drummer and composer Tony Williams had already joined the Miles Davis Quintet and participated in numerous landmark Blue Note recordings including Herbie Hancock Empyrean Isles

Shorter made his own auspicious label debut that spring with Night Dreamer and that summer he joined the Miles Davis Quintet cementing a line-up that would become one of the seminal bands in jazz history

Don Abney - piano

Some Other Spring

so it’s apt that this homecoming takes place on Blue Note

Nduduzo Makhathini: In the Spirit of Ntu etjs-launch-feb-02-2024 The precocious and prodigious drummerBlue Note, 2022 On his milestone tenth studio album, In the Spirit of Ntu, the visionary South African pianist, composer, improviser, and healer Nduduzo Makhathini condenses the thematic, sonic, and conceptual notions explored over his catalog into a layered yet accessible 10 track album. In addition to Makhathini's influences such as John Coltrane, Bheki Mseleku, McCoy Tyner and Abdullah Ibrahim, In the Spirit of Ntu pulls his most foundational