Jazz Articles about Kassa Overall

About Kassa Overall

Album Review

"Ntu" in lingua bantu significa unità in ogni cosa. Tempo e spazio, vivi e morti, forze visibili e invisibili, fuse in un'unica visione filosofica e spirituale, profondamente legata alla cultura africana e afroamericana. Il progetto Ntu Troop di Gary Bartz si è evoluto naturalmente dallo spiritual jazz al movimento B.A.M. (Black American Music), fondendo elementi soul, funk, folk africano, hard bop e jazz d'avanguardia. Una ricchezza di suoni e di atmosfere che non solo rendono la bellezza di questa musica ...

Radio & Podcasts

Final Four

by Patrick Burnette
March 5, 2026

It's too early for March Madness, but just in time for the bastards to wrap up their survey of the New York Times' Top Ten list of 2025 jazz albums. Some of the choices give the boys mixed emotions and some barely any emotions at all, but at the end of this journey we can all say one thing for certain-that sure was definitely ten albums of jazz. Pop matters stretches to include a discussion of a life-enhancing live set ...

Album Review

Gary Bartz & NTU: Damage Control

Read "Damage Control" reviewed by Pierre Giroux

by Pierre Giroux
September 28, 2025

After a 12-year break from the recording studio, legendary saxophonist Gary Bartz makes a powerful return with Damage Control. This deeply personal passion project honors and re-imagines the soul genre. The album showcases Bartz's unwavering curiosity and artistic evolution, transforming soulful classics into meditative, jazz-infused compositions that cross genre boundaries. At the heart of the album's unity is Bartz's core trio, featuring pianist Barney McAll and drummer Kassa Overall. This trio is often joined by a lineup of exceptional musicians ...

Radio & Podcasts

Ernie Andrews, Elvin Jones & Kassa Overall

by Joe Dimino
March 13, 2022

We start the 742nd Episode of Neon Jazz with a new force in jazz by the name of Kassa Overall with music from his album Go Get Ice Cream and Listen to Jazz. From there, we hear from his mentor in Elvin Jones. The remaining hour is a cascade of quality new jazz from the likes of Marta Sanchez, Antonio Adolfo and Samara Joy. Finally, we say good-bye to late singer Ernie Andrews. Dig this new hour of music, my ...

Album Review

Dan Waldman: Sources & Angles

Read "Sources & Angles" reviewed by Geno Thackara

by Geno Thackara
August 25, 2020

After a couple decades as a busy working player, a fellow certainly should have plenty of angles to play, not to mention myriad sources to draw on in a milieu as exciting as the jazz-fusion tradition. This would explain why Dan Waldman's debut doesn't sound like a debut. He knows his stuff; he couldn't have lasted so long in his adopted home of New York City otherwise. His quartet is likewise as solid as a leader could wish for, and ...

Catching Up With

Kassa Overall: I Think I'm Good

by Serena Antinucci
May 5, 2020

We might never know what exactly happens in the creative mind of Brooklyn-based producer and drummer Kassa Overall. However, his latest album, I Think I'm Good (Brownswood Recordings), gives us an insight in his swirling imagination. The sophomore release by one of the brightest musicians of the New York jazz scene, I Think I'm Good reaches even deeper than his debut album Go Get Ice Cream and Listen to Jazz (2019). Overall breaks down barriers among genres, ...

Interview

Kassa Overall racconta il suo secondo album

by Serena Antinucci
April 27, 2020

Quello che succede nella mente creativa del trentaseienne producer e batterista jazz Kassa Overall non lo sapremo mai. Siamo sicuri? In realtà, nel suo ultimo disco I Think I'm Good, uscito per la Brownswood Recordings a gennaio 2020, ci concede un giro nella sua immaginazione vorticosa. Il secondo album di uno dei migliori musicisti della scena jazz newyorchese, di base a Brooklyn, esprime qualcosa di ancor più personale e profondo rispetto al suo debutto Go Get Ice Cream ...