Makaya McCraven‘s 2018 album Universal Beings remains one of the best jazz albums in recent memory, so it’s exciting news that he’s now releasing Universal Beings E&F Sides — 14 previously unreleased ...

Modern day jazz great Makaya McCraven is releasing We’re New Again, a reimagining of the late, legendary Gil Scott-Heron‘s final album I’m New Here, on February 7 via XL (who also released the ...

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The jazz drummer records live performances and then manipulates those recordings in creative ways. His new album pulls from the pool of recordings... Drummer Makaya McCraven, The 'Beat Scientist,' ...

Don’t look now, but there may be a jazz insurgency afoot as artists like Makaya McCraven — touring in support of 2022’s excellent In These Times — seek to goose the genre back into relevance. A ...

It’s been more than a decade since Blue Note Records released an album by a Chicago artist. The last time anyone based here appeared on the roster of this definitive jazz label, it was vocalists ...

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Makaya McCraven is a drummer, producer, and composer who has carved out a unique space in contemporary music as a self-proclaimed “beat scientist." His work blurs the lines between live performance ...

In These Times, McCraven's radiant new offering, confirms that he's moved well past the proof-of-concept phase — showing that it's possible to use tools from across the history of jazz performance and ...

Makaya McCraven calls himself a beat scientist, and with good reason. There’s Makaya behind the kit — hyperkinetic and razor sharp — which has made him an essential fixture of Chicago’s improvised ...

Makaya McCraven — a drummer-producer-bandleader-composer who sums up his MO with the evocative term "beat scientist" — has lately been on the hottest of hot streaks. His album Universal Beings was ...

“‘Is jazz dead?’ is a stupid question,” says drummer and bandleader Makaya McCraven over beers at a Lower East Side bar that is, fittingly, playing a selection of 1930s and ’40s-era jazz cuts. “If you ...