Biography
Shabaka Hutchings (born 1984), also known simply as Shabaka, is a British jazz musician, composer and bandleader. He leads the band Shabaka and the Ancestors, and formerly led Sons of Kemet before its dissolution in 2022. He was also a member of The Comet Is Coming, performing under the stage name King Shabaka. Hutchings has played saxophone and other wind instruments with the Sun Ra Arkestra, Andre 3000, Floating Points, Mulatu Astatke, Polar Bear, Melt Yourself Down, Heliocentrics, London Brew and Zed-U.
Bio from Wikipedia
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Never Enough
2025
Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam
2022
Black Classical Music
2023
Your Queen Is A Reptile
2018
Black Focus
2016
Black To The Future
2021
Maps
2023
Universal Beings
2018
Eye To The Telescope
2004
New Blue Sun
2023
We Are Sent Here By History
2020
Wisdom Of Elders
2016
Universal Beings E&F Sides
2020
Blue Note Re:imagined
2020
We Out Here
2018
græ
2020
A World Of Masks
2017
Shout Out! To Freedom...
2021
African Cosmology
2021
A Day In The Life: Impressions Of Pepper
2018
Inspiration Information
2009
Starting Today
2018
La Saboteuse
2017
Yellow Ochre
2017
Credited work
299 releases · 89 albums · active 2006–2026
- Performance · 611
- Other credits · 130
- Production · 44
- Engineering · 9
Studios: The Crush, London · Livingston Studios · Fish Factory Studio · Total Refreshment Centre
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- Sons Of Kemet
- The Heliocentrics
- Shabaka
- Melt Yourself Down
- Makaya McCraven
- Shake Stew
- Anthony Joseph (2)