Kassa Overall - drums
Jayla Chee - double bass
Matt Wong - piano
Emilio Modeste - saxophones
Shakoor Hakeem - percussion
Kassa Overall's CREAM is out on September 12th via Warp Records.
The album contains eight virtuosic jazz interpretations of hip-hop classics by the likes of The Notorious B.I.G., Wu-Tang Clan, Dr. Dre, and more.
“Enter Kassa Overall, with new notions. What if, instead of covering only the songs that it can easily see itself in, jazz mined a broader swath of hip-hop… for its rhythms, for its humor, for the clever way it frames its source material?…Kassa Overall’s album, CREAM, perhaps the first of its kind, answers that question with jazz explorations of eight canonic hip-hop songs.” — CREAM liner notes, by Dan Charnas (author of 'Dilla Time')
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