Makaya Ntshoko

Makaya Ntshoko ( born October 29, 1939 in Cape Town, South Africa) is a South African jazz drummer.

Ntshoko began his career in Johannesburg with Dudu Pukwana, and then to work with Mackay Davashe and Pat Matshikiza. 1960 and 1961 he played with the Jazz Epistles, to which Hugh Masekela (tp ), Kippie Moeketsi (ts ), Jonas Gwangwa (tb ), Dollar Brand (p) and belonged to Johnny Gertze ( b ), and took the record with them " verse 1 "on; it is the first long- playing record, the black band of the modern jazz recorded in the Land of Apartheid. He attended the early 1960s, England for a year and then moved to Switzerland, where he married his first wife, Ursula Gyger and put together a daughter, Rose Ntshoko fathered with her. Together with bassist Johnny Gertze he played since 1962 again with Dollar Brand Trio and also took up plates with Duke Ellington, Svend Asmussen and Sathima Bea Benjamin.

The dense polyrhythms of his drumming, which occasionally reminiscent of Elvin Jones and his rapid empathy made ​​him a congenial and equal partner in the ensembles of Mal Waldron, Steve Lacy, Karl Berger and Don Cherry. He opened the first festival in Willisau in the quartet of John Tchicai and Irène Schweizer. Next was and he has worked with Dexter Gordon, Ben Webster, Roland Kirk, Kenny Drew, George Gruntz, Joe Haider, Dusko Goykovich, Benny Bailey, Pepper Adams, Hannibal Marvin Peterson, Joe Henderson, Piere Favre and Roman Schwaller. He also leads his own groups such as the mid-1970s " Makaya and the Tsotsi " (with Heinz Sauer, Bob Degen and Isla Eckinger ) and currently the New Tsotsis with Andy Scherrer (ts ), Vera Kappeler (p ) and Stephan Kurmann (b). With Irène Schweizer and Omri Ziegele he forms the trio Where's Africa.

Nthshoko is a member of the Jazz was founded by Johnny Dyani 1986 project against apartheid, in which it occurs regularly with John Tchicai and Harry Beckett for twenty years. For many years, he lives and works in Basel.

Discography (selection)

  • Sathima Bea Benjamin A Morning in Paris ( with Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn and others, 1963)
  • Pre Dollar Brand Abdullah Ibrahim (1965 )
  • Makaya and The Tsotsi (1974 )
  • John Tchicai / Irene Schweizer: Willi The Pig ( with Buschi Niebergall, 1975)
  • Jazz drummer
  • South African musicians
  • Born in 1939
  • Man
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