7.8
Avg Score
4
Opinions
#7,042
All Time
13
Tracks
“Like Miles Davis, the Chicago drummer, remix producer and “beat scientist” Makaya McCraven senses that celebrating the jazz past means sympathetic reinvention by today’s improvisers, not turning long-gone performances into set-in-stone repertory music. Deciphering the Message, McCraven’s pithy homage to the Blue Note Records hard-bop catalogue of the 1960s, is seamlessly assembled from a mix of sa”
“Fresh from reworking Gil Scott-Heron’s final album last year, I’m New Here becoming We’re New Again, Chicago drummer and producer Makaya McCraven makes his debut for Blue Note Records with another reimagining, this time taking on the legendary jazz label’s iconic back catalogue. Picking out 13 tracks from the Blue Note vaults, McCraven and a host of collaborators breathe new life into 80-plus yea”
“On his latest project, the jazz drummer and innovative producer brings the heart of the famous Blue Note catalog into the present.”
