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On Cream, drummer, rapper and producer Kassa Overall brings his two great loves together: hip-hop and jazz drumming in the tradition of Elvin Jones. Where rap albums usually sample jazz, he turns it around and rewrites rap hits from the 90s and 00s into instrumental jazz standards. The Grammy-nominated drummer Kassa Overall turns hip-hop classics into acoustic jazz standards and showcases this at Bimhuis.

Kassa Overall

Dates

Sun 17 Jan20:30 - 22:00

Location

Bimhuis, Piet Heinkade 3, 1019 BR Amsterdam
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Cream

C.R.E.A.M. by Wu-Tang Clan becomes a spiritual waltz set to West African trance rhythms, Big Poppa by Notorious B.I.G. a bossa nova, and Cool Like Dat by Digable Planets is in a 15/4 time signature. After previous albums full of drum machines, samples, and Ableton Live, he recorded Cream the way Rudy Van Gelder did for Kind of Blue and A Love Supreme: together in one room, without overdubs and without editing.

About Kassa Overall

Kassa Overall has been connecting jazz, hip-hop, and avant-garde for over twenty years. He has toured and recorded with Geri Allen, Jon Batiste, Steve Coleman, Vijay Iyer, Terri Lyne Carrington, and Gary Bartz, and produced for Theo Croker, Arto Lindsay, and Danny Brown. On his Warp debut Animals (2023), he explored his identity as an artist and as a Black man in America, with guests such as Lil B, Nick Hakim, and Vijay Iyer. Afterwards, a DJ from Steppin’ into Tomorrow will play in the café.

Accessibility

General accessibility provisions and information

Present, available or allowed

  • Service dog allowed
  • Wheelchair accessible entrance

Provisions for people with reduced mobility

Present, available or allowed

  • Lift
  • Passageways that are sufficiently wide
  • Accessible restroom
  • Mobile payment

Not present, not available or not allowed

  • Personal assistant
  • Guide lines
  • Hearing loop (t-coil or headphones)
  • Sign language interpretation provided
  • Closed captioning
  • Open captioning
  • Hidden disability Sunflower-keycord recognised here
  • Low stimulus hours
  • Sensory experience
  • Audio description
  • Accessible information
  • Material in Braille
  • Stairs with handrail

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