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Makaya Mccraven

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This is jazz’s next evolution… Makaya McCraven, the drummer, composer, and producer representing contemporary jazz, releases an album compiling his four new EPs!Makaya McCraven, a leading drummer, composer, and producer in contemporary jazz. Having made a name for himself through his works on International Anthem, as well as reconstructions of Gil Scott-Heron and Blue Note recordings, this leading contemporary jazz drummer, composer, and producer releases ‘Off the Record’, a compilation of four EPs, via XL Recordings, International Anthem, and Nonesuch. The album captures moments of pure improvisation, recorded live during performances, where the space and the presence of the audience are reflected in the sound. It consists of four EPs’Techno Logic’, ‘The People’s Mixtape’, ‘Hidden Out!’, and ‘PopUp Shop’each independent yet organically connected.This work follows his 2022 masterpiece ‘In