From the township of Langa where he was born in 1939, via the concert stages of the
world to Basel, Switzerland, which has become his home over the past fifty years,
Makaya Ntshoko has built his legend. As part of the Jazz Epistles and his own Jazz
Giants, he belonged to the nation’s jazz avant-garde in the late 1950s. In Europe where
he landed as part of the Dollar Brand trio, he soon became part of the emerging Free
Jazz scene, What followed was a rapid career that took Makaya to Germany, Denmark,
England, France, the United States and the Far East performing with many other jazz
legends. Vuka Online Radio's Dr Mo calls on Makaya in Switzerland, celebrating the life and times of the legend!
