As part of our Hip Hop &… Festival, join us for a very special presentation of our Hip Hop Listening Sessions focused on the intersection between hip hop and jazz! Whether it’s classic hip-hop songs with iconic jazz samples such as  Eric B. & Rakim’s “Don’t Sweat the Technique”; A Tribe Called Quest’s “Excursions,” “Jazz (We’ve Got),” and “Electric Relaxation”; Nas’s “The World Is Yours”; De La Soul’s “Stakes Is High”; Pete Rock & CL Smooth’s “They Reminisce Over You (T.R.O.Y.)”; Digable Planets’s “Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat)”; Mobb Deep’s “Shook Ones, Part II”; The Pharcyde’s “Runnin’”; Talib Kweli’s “Get By,” Kendrick Lamar’s “For Free? (Interlude)”; jazz compositions; covers or collaborations like Miles Davis’s “The Doo Bop Song”; Quincy Jones’s “Back on the Block”; the RH Factor’s “Poetry (ft. Q-Tip and Erykah Badu)”; Robert Glasper’s “J Dillalude” and “Black Radio (ft. Yasiin Bey)”; Chief Adjuah’s “Freedom Is a Word (ft. Vic Mensa); series like Guru’s Jazzmatazz; or concept projects like August Greene, we will be exploring the myriad of ways that jazz and hip hop intersect.

Our Hip Hop Listening Sessions: Jazz and Hip Hop Edition features panelists DJ, rapper, producer, and professor DJ Raydar Ellis; multidisciplinary creative and founder of B-FLY Entertainment Paige Hernandez; acclaimed trumpeter, composer, bandleader, music director and founder of the Revive Big Band  Igmar Thomas; and more to be announced. It will be moderated by artist, producer, and Guggenheim Fellow Kokayi with sounds by radio personality, DJ, and member of 9th Wonder’s True School Corp DJ Face. It will also be complemented by a live performance set of Hernandez and B-FLY Entertainment’s iconic Liner Notes highlighting the jazz and hip hop continuum through jazz standards, hip hop samples, and liner notes from your favorite artists.

Presented as part of the Hip Hop &… Festival