Kassa Overall
Schedule
Sat Oct 26 2024 at 07:30 pm
UTC-06:00Location
210 Yale Blvd SE, Albuquerque, NM, United States, New Mexico 87106 | Albuquerque, NM
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A Grammy-nominated musician, emcee, singer, producer and drummer, Kassa Overall melds avant-garde experimentation with hip-hop production techniques to “tilt the nexus of jazz and rap in unmapped directions” He has released four critically acclaimed projects – I THINK I’M GOOD, Go Get Ice Cream and Listen to Jazz, Shades of Flu and Shades of Flu 2 – and on his latest, Animals, a loaded metaphor for the paradoxes of his life as an entertainer and as a black man in America, he can be heard, as NPR notes, “pushing musical boundaries and finding new ways to express himself through a unique blend of experimental hip-hop-infused jazz.” Layering Roland 808s against avant-garde drumming in the vein of his mentors Elvin Jones and Billy Hart (with whom he studied with at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music), the album features “virtuoso musos alongside top-flight jazz improvisation weaving in and out of orchestral string arrangements by Jherek Bischoff.” Animals was listed as one of the best jazz albums of 2023 by the New York Times and one of the best albums of 2023 by the San Francisco Chronicle as well as one of ALL Music’s Favorite Albums of 2023. Deemed by Pitchfork as “one of modern jazz music’s most audacious futurists. Terri Lyne Carrington in the New York Times, said “Kassa is a pre-eminent style bender and blender, successfully juxtaposing genres through his production expertise and use of melodic and harmonic forms that deftly integrate the new with the old.”Kassa Overall will be performing in Santa Fe for AMP Concerts at the Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery on Sunday October 27 at 7:30pm. Tickets at ampconcerts.org
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Where is it happening?
210 Yale Blvd SE, Albuquerque, NM, United States, New Mexico 87106Event Location & Nearby Stays:
