Stephen McCraven - Black Studies flac album

Makaya McCraven in Chicago in October. Lyndon French for RollingStone. Is jazz dead?’ is a stupid question, says drummer and bandleader Makaya McCraven over beers at a Lower East Side bar that is, fittingly, playing a selection of 1930s and ’40s-era jazz cuts. If you have to ask the same question for 50 years, it becomes a rhetorical question. They gave McCraven the kind of jazz-vanguard cred also recently assigned to artists like Robert Glasper, Kamasi Washington and Shabaka Hutchings, all of whom have earned some degree of crossover success over the past decade thanks in part to their ability to tap into hip-hop and R&B audiences. Despite the fact that these artists emerged at different times and with different aesthetics, each has been presented as the face of a jazz revival or resurgence - a necessary spark to an otherwise moribund genre.

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Makaya McCraven is a beat scientist. The cutting edge drummer, producer, and sonic collagist is a multi-talented force whose inventive process & intuitive style of performance defy categorization. His breakthrough album In the Moment was released with International Anthem Recording Co. (IARC) in January of 2015 and quickly named Album of the Week on BBC 6 Radio by influential DJ Gilles Peterson. By the end of the year it was a Best of 2015 selection for Los Angeles Times, Pop Matters, NPR Music’s Jazz Critics Poll, and Apple Music. In The Moment was a dramatic statement by McCraven, where he debuted a unique brand of organic beat music that quickly launched him into the vanguard of not only n jazz artists, but also a niche genre of next-wave composer-producers blurring the boundaries of jazz & electronic music.

Stephen McCraven has been played on NTS shows including If Music, with Allah first played on 23 September 2014. Stephen McCraven has been played on NTS shows including If Music, with Allah first played on 23 September 2014. Original source Last.