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Karriem Riggins

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If jazz and hip-hop passionately and cleverly intertwined with one another, the hybrid result would be a musically gifted lovechild. Or, perhaps, if ones bloodline is to blame father, Emmanuel Riggins is a musician and used to perform with guitarist Grant Green a musical rarity is nonetheless the result. Whatever the reason, whatever the description, a musical talent by any other name is still well a musical talent. And such a musical talent has manifested itself into musician, producer Karriem Riggins. Born August 25, 1975 in Detroit, MI, Riggins parents realized their son was gifted at an early age: not only would Riggins dig through his parents record collection as a young child but he would also accompany his father to the studio and play with instruments in the likeness of a musical great
Triune

Label: Smoke Sessions Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Unconditional Love; Ultraviolet; Jazz Is a Four-Letter Word; Let It Ride; Gold Dust Black Magic; #bamisforthechildren; Feed the Fire.
Gary Bartz, Zoh Amba, Greg Tardy and Oscar Rossignoli

by Hobart Taylor
New music from Gary Bartz, Zoh Amba, Oscar Rossignoli and Allison Miller. Playlist Gary Bartz In Search of my Heart-Love Surrounds Us" from Damage Control (OYO) 00:00 Zoh Amba Seaside" from Sun (Smalltownsounds) 10:08 Host Speaks 17:02 Allison Miller Fierce" from Big and Lovely (Royal Potato Family) 18:35 George Burton Alexa Barchini Your ...
Detroit Jazz Festival 2024: The Year of Alice

by Paul Rauch
Detroit Jazz Festival 2024 Hart Plaza & Campus Martius Detroit, MI August 30-September 2, 2024 An annual pilgrimage to the Detroit Jazz Festival allows a jazz fan, or in this case, a jazz journalist, to reset to an internal default setting for what this music means to us on a very ...
Kasan Belgrave Takes Off

by Paul Rauch
As a jazz journalist, attending summer festivals is almost a rite of passage, a journey to a place where so many pieces of the international jazz community are gathered in one spot to sample, or to indulge oneself. Over the years, accompanied by repeated visits, the sights and sounds of the festival locations become clearer and ...
Gregory Hutchinson: It’s All About Feel

by Leo Sidran
Gregory Hutchinson--or Hutch" as he is known--is one of the most highly regarded and highly recorded jazz drummers on the planet. Part of what makes him so special is that he sits at the crossroads of the old school and the new school. He was mentored by old jazz masters like Red Rodney, Ray Brown and ...
Detroit 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 ...
Detroit Jazz Festival 2023: A Celebration of Home

The 2023 Detroit Jazz Festival is almost upon us, taking place in its annual Labor Day weekend slot on the yearly jazz festival calendar. The largest free jazz festival in the world brings the music to the people of Detroit, and the world, on September 1-4 in downtown Detroit and in Hart Plaza along the Detroit ...
Wells Fargo Jazz For Teens

by Sanford Josephson
Clay Hudson grew up in a family surrounded by music, and it rubbed off on me." Henry Spencer remembers that in the second grade at St. Luke's School in the West Village, every student took drum lessons. I was the only one who stuck with it." Hudson and Spencer, both drummers, are two of ...
Meet Mulgrew Miller

by AAJ Staff
From the 1995-2003 archive: This article first appeared at All About Jazz in June 2002. All About Jazz: You were born in Greenwood, Mississippi, and grew up listening to blues, gospel and R&B music. What attracted you to jazz? Mulgrew Miller: The thing that pulled me toward jazz was jazz itself. By ...