Kassa Overall is a jazz musician, emcee, singer, producer and drummer, a product of New York City's jazz scene who melds avant-garde experimentation with hip-hop production techniques to tilt the nexus of jazz and hip-hop in unmapped directions, reflecting a panoramic musical background from West Coast G-Funk to the sounds of the New York underground.
In the past two years, Overall has released four critically acclaimed projects, GO GET ICE CREAM AND LISTEN TO JAZZ, I THINK I'M GOOD, SHADES OF FLU and SHADES OF FLU 2, gathering support from artistic visionaries including Virgil Abloh and Thom Yorke. Whatever the experiment, Overall remains faithful to the pocket of jazz drums in the tradition of his mentors, the late Elvin Jones and Billy Hart, with whom he studied at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music.
Overall has been working at the forefront of jazz for two decades, touring and recording as a sideman drummer with artists as varied as Geri Allen, Steve Coleman, Francis and the Lights, Yoko Ono, Peter Evans, Carmen Lundy, and Gary Bartz. His work as a producer can be heard on albums by Theo Croker (Escape Velocity), Arto Lindsay (Cuidado Madame), and Das Racist (Sit Down, Man). He's also featured as an emcee and DJ on drummer Terri Lyne Carrington's latest project, Social Science -- a project for which he received a Grammy nomination.
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An artist who embodies jazz's exploratory spirit, blending a bone-deep grasp of the tradition with an innate feel for cutting-edge rhythms and technology. The Seattle-born, New York-based musician was mentored by Billy Hart, Elvin Jones, and Billy Higgins, and has worked as a sideman and collaborator with Christian McBride, Vijay Iyer, Ravi Coltrane, Gary Bartz, Henry Threadgill, and Wallace Roney.
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As Time Out New York frames his talent, Overall is "a Renaissance man: part chopsy, super-funky jazz drummer, and part rising producer-MC." Since the January 2019 release of Ice Cream, NYC and global audiences have had the opportunity to experience Overall's singular brilliance, which has been embraced with rave reviews from The New York Times, AFROPUNK, Downbeat, NPR, BBC Radio 6 Music, and other influential media outlets.
Seattle-raised, Bushwick based Kassa Overall is one of the fastest rising stars of NYCs legendary jazz scene and a self-described backpack jazz artist, he melds the praxis of avant-garde improvisation with hip-hop production techniques on his forthcoming album, I THINK I'M GOOD, due out on Feb 28th.
The album tilts the nexus of jazz and hip-hop in new directions that reflect his panoramic, multi-racial background, from Joan Baez to West Coast G-Funk to the sounds of New York's avant-garde scene. Since the January 2019 release of his critically acclaimed debut album "Go Get Ice Cream and Listen to Jazz", NYC and global audiences have had the opportunity to experience Overall's mighty talents in his performances and releases.
Overall has been working at the forefront of jazz for two decades, touring and recording as a sideman drummer with artists as varied as Geri Allen, Francis and the Lights, Yoko Ono and Arto Lindsay. He's featured on drummer Terri Lyne Carrington's Social Science, worked with Brandee Younger and shared stages with many of the greats, including Donald Byrd, Mayer Hawthorne, Yoko Ono and Gary Bartz.
Kassa's new record I THINK I'M GOOD features Vijay Iyer and Theo Croker (whose album he co-produced) plus a who's who of the exciting breakout jazz scene. Meanwhile, he's also maintained a separate career as an indie hip-hop producer and rapper with groups like Das Racist and Kool and Kass.
"Kassa Overall's new album... is one of the few genuine-sounding, full-scope amalgams of contemporary hip-hop and jazz to surface in recent years." - The New York Times
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In the past two years, Overall has released four critically acclaimed projects, GO GET ICE CREAM AND LISTEN TO JAZZ, I THINK I'M GOOD, SHADES OF FLU and SHADES OF FLU 2, gathering support from artistic visionaries including Virgil Abloh and Thom Yorke. Whatever the experiment, Overall remains faithful to the pocket of jazz drums in the tradition of his mentors, the late Elvin Jones and Billy Hart, with whom he studied at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music.
Overall has been working at the forefront of jazz for two decades, touring and recording as a sideman drummer with artists as varied as Geri Allen, Steve Coleman, Francis and the Lights, Yoko Ono, Peter Evans, Carmen Lundy, and Gary Bartz. His work as a producer can be heard on albums by Theo Croker (Escape Velocity), Arto Lindsay (Cuidado Madame), and Das Racist (Sit Down, Man). He's also featured as an emcee and DJ on drummer Terri Lyne Carrington's latest project, Social Science -- a project for which he received a Grammy nomination.
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An artist who embodies jazz's exploratory spirit, blending a bone-deep grasp of the tradition with an innate feel for cutting-edge rhythms and technology. The Seattle-born, New York-based musician was mentored by Billy Hart, Elvin Jones, and Billy Higgins, and has worked as a sideman and collaborator with Christian McBride, Vijay Iyer, Ravi Coltrane, Gary Bartz, Henry Threadgill, and Wallace Roney.
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As Time Out New York frames his talent, Overall is "a Renaissance man: part chopsy, super-funky jazz drummer, and part rising producer-MC." Since the January 2019 release of Ice Cream, NYC and global audiences have had the opportunity to experience Overall's singular brilliance, which has been embraced with rave reviews from The New York Times, AFROPUNK, Downbeat, NPR, BBC Radio 6 Music, and other influential media outlets.
Seattle-raised, Bushwick based Kassa Overall is one of the fastest rising stars of NYCs legendary jazz scene and a self-described backpack jazz artist, he melds the praxis of avant-garde improvisation with hip-hop production techniques on his forthcoming album, I THINK I'M GOOD, due out on Feb 28th.
The album tilts the nexus of jazz and hip-hop in new directions that reflect his panoramic, multi-racial background, from Joan Baez to West Coast G-Funk to the sounds of New York's avant-garde scene. Since the January 2019 release of his critically acclaimed debut album "Go Get Ice Cream and Listen to Jazz", NYC and global audiences have had the opportunity to experience Overall's mighty talents in his performances and releases.
Overall has been working at the forefront of jazz for two decades, touring and recording as a sideman drummer with artists as varied as Geri Allen, Francis and the Lights, Yoko Ono and Arto Lindsay. He's featured on drummer Terri Lyne Carrington's Social Science, worked with Brandee Younger and shared stages with many of the greats, including Donald Byrd, Mayer Hawthorne, Yoko Ono and Gary Bartz.
Kassa's new record I THINK I'M GOOD features Vijay Iyer and Theo Croker (whose album he co-produced) plus a who's who of the exciting breakout jazz scene. Meanwhile, he's also maintained a separate career as an indie hip-hop producer and rapper with groups like Das Racist and Kool and Kass.
"Kassa Overall's new album... is one of the few genuine-sounding, full-scope amalgams of contemporary hip-hop and jazz to surface in recent years." - The New York Times
Kassa Overall is a jazz musician, emcee, singer, producer and drummer, a product of New York City's jazz scene who melds avant-garde experimentation with hip-hop production techniques to tilt the nexus of jazz and hip-hop in unmapped directions, reflecting a panoramic musical background from West Coast G-Funk to the sounds of the New York underground.
In the past two years, Overall has released four critically acclaimed projects, GO GET ICE CREAM AND LISTEN TO JAZZ, I THINK I'M GOOD, SHADES OF FLU and SHADES OF FLU 2, gathering support from artistic visionaries including Virgil Abloh and Thom Yorke. Whatever the experiment, Overall remains faithful to the pocket of jazz drums in the tradition of his mentors, the late Elvin Jones and Billy Hart, with whom he studied at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music.
Overall has been working at the forefront of jazz for two decades, touring and recording as a sideman drummer with artists as varied as Geri Allen, Steve Coleman, Francis and the Lights, Yoko Ono, Peter Evans, Carmen Lundy, and Gary Bartz. His work as a producer can be heard on albums by Theo Croker (Escape Velocity), Arto Lindsay (Cuidado Madame), and Das Racist (Sit Down, Man). He's also featured as an emcee and DJ on drummer Terri Lyne Carrington's latest project, Social Science -- a project for which he received a Grammy nomination.
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An artist who embodies jazz's exploratory spirit, blending a bone-deep grasp of the tradition with an innate feel for cutting-edge rhythms and technology. The Seattle-born, New York-based musician was mentored by Billy Hart, Elvin Jones, and Billy Higgins, and has worked as a sideman and collaborator with Christian McBride, Vijay Iyer, Ravi Coltrane, Gary Bartz, Henry Threadgill, and Wallace Roney.
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As Time Out New York frames his talent, Overall is "a Renaissance man: part chopsy, super-funky jazz drummer, and part rising producer-MC." Since the January 2019 release of Ice Cream, NYC and global audiences have had the opportunity to experience Overall's singular brilliance, which has been embraced with rave reviews from The New York Times, AFROPUNK, Downbeat, NPR, BBC Radio 6 Music, and other influential media outlets.
Seattle-raised, Bushwick based Kassa Overall is one of the fastest rising stars of NYCs legendary jazz scene and a self-described backpack jazz artist, he melds the praxis of avant-garde improvisation with hip-hop production techniques on his forthcoming album, I THINK I'M GOOD, due out on Feb 28th.
The album tilts the nexus of jazz and hip-hop in new directions that reflect his panoramic, multi-racial background, from Joan Baez to West Coast G-Funk to the sounds of New York's avant-garde scene. Since the January 2019 release of his critically acclaimed debut album "Go Get Ice Cream and Listen to Jazz", NYC and global audiences have had the opportunity to experience Overall's mighty talents in his performances and releases.
Overall has been working at the forefront of jazz for two decades, touring and recording as a sideman drummer with artists as varied as Geri Allen, Francis and the Lights, Yoko Ono and Arto Lindsay. He's featured on drummer Terri Lyne Carrington's Social Science, worked with Brandee Younger and shared stages with many of the greats, including Donald Byrd, Mayer Hawthorne, Yoko Ono and Gary Bartz.
Kassa's new record I THINK I'M GOOD features Vijay Iyer and Theo Croker (whose album he co-produced) plus a who's who of the exciting breakout jazz scene. Meanwhile, he's also maintained a separate career as an indie hip-hop producer and rapper with groups like Das Racist and Kool and Kass.
"Kassa Overall's new album... is one of the few genuine-sounding, full-scope amalgams of contemporary hip-hop and jazz to surface in recent years." - The New York Times
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In the past two years, Overall has released four critically acclaimed projects, GO GET ICE CREAM AND LISTEN TO JAZZ, I THINK I'M GOOD, SHADES OF FLU and SHADES OF FLU 2, gathering support from artistic visionaries including Virgil Abloh and Thom Yorke. Whatever the experiment, Overall remains faithful to the pocket of jazz drums in the tradition of his mentors, the late Elvin Jones and Billy Hart, with whom he studied at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music.
Overall has been working at the forefront of jazz for two decades, touring and recording as a sideman drummer with artists as varied as Geri Allen, Steve Coleman, Francis and the Lights, Yoko Ono, Peter Evans, Carmen Lundy, and Gary Bartz. His work as a producer can be heard on albums by Theo Croker (Escape Velocity), Arto Lindsay (Cuidado Madame), and Das Racist (Sit Down, Man). He's also featured as an emcee and DJ on drummer Terri Lyne Carrington's latest project, Social Science -- a project for which he received a Grammy nomination.
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An artist who embodies jazz's exploratory spirit, blending a bone-deep grasp of the tradition with an innate feel for cutting-edge rhythms and technology. The Seattle-born, New York-based musician was mentored by Billy Hart, Elvin Jones, and Billy Higgins, and has worked as a sideman and collaborator with Christian McBride, Vijay Iyer, Ravi Coltrane, Gary Bartz, Henry Threadgill, and Wallace Roney.
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As Time Out New York frames his talent, Overall is "a Renaissance man: part chopsy, super-funky jazz drummer, and part rising producer-MC." Since the January 2019 release of Ice Cream, NYC and global audiences have had the opportunity to experience Overall's singular brilliance, which has been embraced with rave reviews from The New York Times, AFROPUNK, Downbeat, NPR, BBC Radio 6 Music, and other influential media outlets.
Seattle-raised, Bushwick based Kassa Overall is one of the fastest rising stars of NYCs legendary jazz scene and a self-described backpack jazz artist, he melds the praxis of avant-garde improvisation with hip-hop production techniques on his forthcoming album, I THINK I'M GOOD, due out on Feb 28th.
The album tilts the nexus of jazz and hip-hop in new directions that reflect his panoramic, multi-racial background, from Joan Baez to West Coast G-Funk to the sounds of New York's avant-garde scene. Since the January 2019 release of his critically acclaimed debut album "Go Get Ice Cream and Listen to Jazz", NYC and global audiences have had the opportunity to experience Overall's mighty talents in his performances and releases.
Overall has been working at the forefront of jazz for two decades, touring and recording as a sideman drummer with artists as varied as Geri Allen, Francis and the Lights, Yoko Ono and Arto Lindsay. He's featured on drummer Terri Lyne Carrington's Social Science, worked with Brandee Younger and shared stages with many of the greats, including Donald Byrd, Mayer Hawthorne, Yoko Ono and Gary Bartz.
Kassa's new record I THINK I'M GOOD features Vijay Iyer and Theo Croker (whose album he co-produced) plus a who's who of the exciting breakout jazz scene. Meanwhile, he's also maintained a separate career as an indie hip-hop producer and rapper with groups like Das Racist and Kool and Kass.
"Kassa Overall's new album... is one of the few genuine-sounding, full-scope amalgams of contemporary hip-hop and jazz to surface in recent years." - The New York Times
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