“Very few things satisfy quite like the seamless fusion of jazz and hip hop, when swirling sax slivers around silken beats, and the trumpets get a bit involved. Kassa Overall, the supreme beatsmith and bandleader hailing from Seattle, understands this perfectly. He spent the majority of the noughties studying jazz at Oberlin and playing drums with big jazz names, but always harboured a hunger to pr”
“The entertaining dance between jazz and hip-hop is now in its third decade, from the likes of Public Enemy and A Tribe Called Quest hijacking Blue Note samples to the fuller embrace of Guru’s Jazzmatazz. Kassa Overall embodies both traditions: a drummer who has played with the late Geri Allen and the creator of 2019’s Go Get Ice Cream and Listen to Jazz and 2020’s I Think I’m Good, albums that mel”
“Like his last LP, the drummer-producer’s Warp debut rejects false dichotomies like jazz vs. hip-hop. But sometimes, his freeform style is too scattered for its own good.”
