The Jazz Gallery: Kassa Overall: Album Release Show

The Jazz Gallery
1158 Broadway, 5th Fl.
New York, NY 10001

Sets at 7:30pm and 9:30pm

Kassa Overall – drums
Rashaan Carter – 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’)