The Makanda Project featuring Salim Washington

The Makanda Project, Boston’s acclaimed creative big band, begins its 2022 season with a concert featuring multi-instrumentalist and composer Salim Washington, a Boston resident and bandleader during the 1980s and 1990s who has performed worldwide in the years since. Based in South Africa for the past decade, he is spending the current year in New York. The program will include compositions by Salim Washington, Makanda Ken McIntyre, and South African musicians Ndikho Xaba and Feya Faku.

The musicians are:
Kurtis Rivers – alto saxophone
Lee Odom – alto saxophone, flute
Salim Washington – tenor saxophone, flute, oboe, bass clarinet
Sean Berry – tenor saxophone
Paavo Carey – tenor saxophone, flute
Charlie Kohlhase – baritone saxophone
Jerry Sabatini – trumpet
Haneef Nelson – trumpet
Alfred Patterson – trombone
Richard Harper – trombone
Bill Lowe – bass trombone
John Kordalewski – piano
Avery Sharpe – bass
Yoron Israel – drums