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Start with Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace (2024) album, His debut solo album, centered on flutes
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Shabaka (Shabaka Hutchings) is a London-born composer and multi-instrumentalist who helped put England's 21st-century jazz scene on the map, blending jazz with calypso, dancehall, hip-hop and African folk traditions. He led the acclaimed groups Sons of Kemet, The Comet Is Coming and Shabaka and the Ancestors before stepping away from the saxophone at the end of 2023 to focus on flutes and clarinet. His 2024 debut solo album under the name Shabaka, Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace, marked that meditative shift and featured collaborators including Andre 3000, Esperanza Spalding and Moses Sumney