Makaya Ntshoko
South African jazz drummer Makaya Ntshoko was born in Cape Town on October 29,
1939. He grew up in Langa and played in Dollar Brand's trio and Hugh Masekela's
sextet, before joining them in the cult group The Jazz Epistles in 1959. He then
formed The Jazz Giants with other South African musicians, before moving to
Switzerland in 1962, where he played with Dollar Brand at Club Africana between
1963 and 1965. Relocating to Denmark in the late 1960s, he accompanied Stuff
Smith, Benny Bailey, Dexter Gordon and Ben Webster, and followed the evolution
from hard bop to free jazz, provin...
