Twelve Donkeys

Gil Scott-Heron & Makaya McCraven - The Crutch

MAKAYA MCCRAVEN

Over the past decade, the harpist Brandee Younger has been at the center of music’s celebrated work, even if you didn’t know she was there. Be it her output with the soul singer John Legend or the rapper Common, she’s always put her stamp on the music in question, all while setting a new course for what classical music can entail. But with her major-label debut, Somewhere Different, she’s pushing her artistry to the foreground. By her own admission, Younger would’ve stepped back in years past to let others shine; the harp would’ve been mixed behind layers of woodwind instruments. Now she’s putting her instrument first. “It was important for me to thrust the harp forward in a non-traditional setting,” Younger says of her new album. “I made a conscious effort to make sure that the harp was a bit more present in this recording. It’s important for the instrument.” Indeed, the first sound heard on Somewhere Different is the harp, a gorgeous, tone-setting solo that ushers in “Love & Struggle,” the album’s meditative opener. It also sets the mission for the music that follows: Younger has spent her career breaking down the barriers between classical music and contemporary forms of R&B, hip-hop, and funk. This album synthesizes her work while forging new ground. “I started recording music that wasn’t common on harp in 2006,” she says. This is my way of combining all the worlds I have into one. This is me doing my own thing completely.”

She's joined tonight in the Sound Room by Rashaan Carter on bass and Makaya McCraven on drums.

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This is a 21+ event.

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Brandee Younger with Rashaan Carter and Makaya McCraven

Brandee Younger

Rashaan Carter

Gigs

New York

Public Records

Saturday May 13th, Outline’s Night Two opens the Ruins for its summer season with Standing on the Corner, Makaya McCraven, Laraaji and Liv.e. Each presents a deeply steeped, richly textured vision of the avant garde as a place of radiant possibility and cultivated psychedelia. Standing on the Corner and McCraven are well known to anyone following the cutting edge of jazz. Each, in their own way, blends hip hop, incredible ensemble playing and deep emotional expression into something indelibly modern. Laraaji has been an unwavering practitioner of celestial sounds, operating in his own lane for decades, while Liv.e tweaks '90s R&B for the Web 2.0 era.

Full festival passes available at: https://link.dice.fm/fullfestivalpass

This is an 18+ event

Knockdown Center

Outline (Night Two): Standing on the Corner, Makaya McCraven, Laraaji, Liv.e

Makaya McCraven - In These Times

Standing on the Corner

Laraaji

Liv.e

Giovedì 20 luglio | JAZZMI PREVIEW

ore 21.00 | Triennale Milano, Giardino

MAKAYA MCCRAVEN

Anteprima di JAZZMI con uno dei protagonisti della black music contemporanea tra jazz urbano, nu soul, sperimentazione e tutte le sfumature e forme del genere.

In attesa dell’ottava edizione che si preannuncia ancor più grande e piena di sorprese, JAZZMI presenta, in collaborazione con Nao Uao, un concerto speciale in anteprima con uno degli artisti più emblematici della black music contemporanea: il 20 luglio MAKAYA McCRAVEN, batterista, compositore e producer si esibirà presso il Giardino Giancarlo De Carlo di Triennale Milano.

Questo è un evento 18+

Doc Live

JAZZMI Preview | Makaya Mc Craven live

Milano

Triennale Milano

Join us as we embark on a new journey for We Out Here Festival - setting up roots in our new home in Wimborne St Giles, Dorset.

Other than a change in date & location, our festival formula remains the same: a line-up overflowing with genre pioneers and the most exciting emerging talent, and an array of family, wellness & cultural activities.

A weekend festival ticket includes:

\- Entrance to the festival; 12pm Thursday 10th August - 12pm Monday 14th.

\- Access to public camping with free showers

\- An array of free of charge family activities.

\- Complimentary wellness sessions and workshops.

\- Roller skate hire at our rink

\- Talks and debates across music and social issues

AND

\- A £1 donation towards one of our on site charities of your choosing.

Please click here for a list of festival FAQs and important event information:

https://www.weoutherefestival.com/information

Having previously taken place in Abbots Ripton, Cambridgeshire for the last three editions, the festival is excited to embark on a new chapter in an idyllic new site; unfurling within 400 acres of lush parkland in the South-West of England.

The festival will lay roots within the Grade II\* listed grounds of St Giles House, a nature-filled sanctuary that invites the We Out Here audience to escape, unwind and explore together in August 2023.

This is an all ages event

MAKAYA MCCRAVEN

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