Kassa Overall

Name: Kassa Overall
Start: 2025-09-09T19:00:00-04:00
Location: The Red Room at Cafe 939

Schedule

Tue, 09 Sep, 2025 at 07:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

The Red Room at Cafe 939 | Boston, MA

Kassa Overall is a Grammy-nominated jazz artist, drummer, emcee, singer and producer. He seamlessly blends jazz, hip-hop and avant-garde experimentation into a sound uniquely his own. His music is both innovative and accessible, pushing the boundaries of genre while remaining deeply engaging. Overall has released three critically acclaimed albums, including Go Get Ice Cream and Listen to Jazz (2019) and I Think I’m Good (2020). His latest project, ANIMALS(2023), explores the complexities of his identity as an artist and a Black man in America, featuring collaborations with an eclectic mix of musicians, from Danny Brown and LilB to Nick Hakim and Vijay Iyer. A graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music , Overall has been a driving force in the New York City jazz scene for over two decades. He has toured and recorded with renowned artists like Geri Allen, Jon Batiste, Gary Bartz, Vijay Iyer and Steve Coleman, and his production work can be heard on albums by Theo Croker, Arto Lindsay and Danny Brown.