Nduduzo Makhathini

Nduduzo Makhathini (born in uMgungundlovu, Pietermaritzburg on 24 September 1982) is a South African jazz musician. He was the recipient of the 2015 Standard Bank Young Artist Award in the category of Jazz, and at the 2017 All Africa Music Awards he won the Best Jazz Artist award. Makhathini plays with a bright lyricism and a full sound pallet that gives him a markedly wide melodic vocabulary. His music shares a comparative searching sensibility along with a keen spiritual focus like the music of the late jazz pianist, Bheki Mseleku.