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Karriem Riggins is best known as a jazz drummer and hip- hop producer for artists like Common, Kanye West, The Roots, and Kaytranada, but he doesnt categorize himself as anything but an artist.
You dont have to put yourself in a box…theres so many different ways to go, Riggins says. A student of late jazz bassist Ray Brown, he tours with another Brown protg, Grammy Award winner Diana Krall. He spent much of 2016 at work on Commons much-heralded Black America Again album, which included a performance at the White House as part of NPRs Tiny Desk series. The son of late keyboardist Emmanuel Riggins, names of some of the jazz artists hes backed reads like the genres hall of fameHank Jones, Oscar Peterson, Milt Jackson, Donald Byrd and Ron Carter.
For Headnod Suite, his second album on Stones Throw Records, Riggins expertly builds on his credentials with 29 tracks of pure hip-hopeach track deftly crafted with swing that only a drummer would know. Swing is the weapon. And theres always a message, be it verbal or instrumental. Headnod Suite is a concept of several rhythmic ideas fused together, Riggins says. I wanted to explore the power of interludes and marrying different styles and harmony together.
Headnod Suite by Karriem Riggins
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