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Fusing bebop with hip-hop sampling, the Chicago-based drummer is finding new ways on his Blue Note debut to expand the boundaries of jazz
Makaya McCraven calls himself a beat scientist, and with good reason.
Makaya McCraven has released Deciphering The Message, a vibrant new remix project for which the Chicago-based drummer, producer, and beat scientist Makaya McCraven dug through the Blue Note Records vaults to put a modern bounce on classics by Art Blakey, Horace Silver, and Hank Mobley, among others.
In advance of the Other Minds Festival in San Francisco, Take Five features artists from its lineup — including King Britt with Tyshawn Sorey, Sara Schoenbeck with Roscoe Mitchell, Sylvie Courvoisier with Mary Halvorson, and Darius Jones.
