Kassa Overall
Newport Jazz Festival 2024
Fort Adams State Park
84 Fort Adams Drive
Aug 4, 2024
12:00 PM EDT
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August 2–4, 2024
84 Fort Adams Drive, Newport, RI
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Kassa Overall Biography
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 (2019), I THINK I’M GOOD (February 2020), followed by SHADES OF FLU (May 2020) and SHADES OF FLU 2 (April 2021), pandemic mixtapes loosely inspired by Madlib’s Shades of Blue. 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.
Read MoreIn the past two years, Overall has released four critically acclaimed projects: Go Get Ice Cream and Listen to Jazz (2019), I THINK I’M GOOD (February 2020), followed by SHADES OF FLU (May 2020) and SHADES OF FLU 2 (April 2021), pandemic mixtapes loosely inspired by Madlib’s Shades of Blue. 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.
Computer Music
Electronic
New Jazz
Jazz
Avant-garde Jazz
Hip Hop
Rap
Trap
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