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When I catch up with Kassa Overall on the final day of 2020, he’s holed up……...
Trumpeter Wynton Marsalis effectively started the Young Lions movement upon the release of his 1982……...
As part of Bird’s centennial celebration in 2020, Craft Recordings presents The Savoy 10-Inch LP…
Singer-songwriter Kat Edmonson’s new album Dreamers Do is one of the 10 Albums You Need…
By Jared Proudfoot & Samuel Ngahane Jazz had another bumper year in 2019 with the…
The San Jose Jazz Summer Fest has become one of the nation’s most important live…
On a cold December night at Manhattan’s Jazz Gallery, drummer Kassa Overall, pianist Jon Batiste and bassist Ameen Saleem made music that was, by turns, hard-swinging, brooding, bluesy and abstract...
Seattle is a hotbed of jazz, with a hungry, self-reliant young scene that has produced some of today’s most electrifying artists. Here, drummer and Seattle native Kassa Overall shares some of his soundtrack for his hometown.