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Makaya McCraven at San Jose Jazz Summer Fest at Cafe Stritch
Courtesy of Massimo Chisessi | Posted on June 4, 2018
Where
Cafe Stritch
San Jose Jazz Summer Fest
374 South 1st St.
San Jose, CA
Map
(408) 280-6161
When
Fri, August 10, 2018
8:30 pm
Save the date
Musicians
Makaya McCraven
drumsJunius Paul
bass, electricJeff Parker
guitarBen LaMar Gay
multi-instrumentalistAbout
One of the joys of attending a music festival is hearing new discoveries. 2016 Winter Fest audiences got to experience the Northern California debut of trumpeter Marquis Hill’s Blacktet. Now 2018 Summer Fest fans will have a chance to catch the personal project of Makaya McCraven, its bleeding edge drummer, producer and visionary sonic collagist.
By chopping up and re-ordering previously recorded fragments and improvising over those new sequences, McCraven and his bandmates create a new form. His horn-wielding comrades typically are more like soloists playing a classical concerto, and not their usual small combo roles, dipping in and out of the front line while the rhythm section switches up various jazz, Caribbean-Cuban and African forms....