Jazz Articles about Karriem Riggins
About Karriem Riggins
Instrument: Drums
Article Coverage | Calendar | Albums | Photos | Similar ArtistsDetroit Jazz Festival 2023: A Tribute to a Great Jazz City
by Paul Rauch
Detroit Jazz Festival 2023 Hart Plaza & Campus Martius Detroit, MI September 1-4, 2023 Opening night is always a gas. Whether it takes the form of the annual rite of spring in baseball, the long anticipated opening of a Broadway play, or for that matter, the opening salvo of a world class jazz festival in Detroit, it is an occasion of revival and hope. As thousands descended on the Carhartt Amphitheatre stage on a gorgeous ...
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by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
Drummer Karriem Riggins has performed with or arranged for vocalist Betty Carter, pianist Oscar Peterson and bassist Ray Brown; he sat in the drummer's chair on pianist Mulgrew Miller's excellent Live at Yoshi's, Volume One (MAXJAZZ, 2004) and Two (MAXJAZZ, 2005). Hell, he even plays on ex-Beatle bassist-vocalist Paul McCartney's Kisses on the Bottom (Hear Music, 2012). These are pretty high-level mainstream credentials.But Riggins is a Jekyll-and-Hyde; he's an equally productive hip hop producer, having overseen releases by ...
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