Makaya McCraven

• black vinyl with obi strip

Over the course of 3 days in London, drummer/producer Makaya McCraven connected with first time collaborators (Theon Cross, Nubya Garcia, Joe Armon-Jones, Soweto Kinch, Ashley Henry, Daniel Casimir and Kamaal Williams) and did 2 improvised performances as part of a 2-night showcase called CHICAGOxLONDON at legendary UK Jazz hub Total Refreshment Centre (TRC).

The following Sunday afternoon five producers (LeFtO, Ben LaMar Gay, Quiet Dawn, Earl Jeffers & Don Leisure of the Darkhouse Family) were invited to TRC to participate in an event called Fresh Roasted: Live Beat-Making & Battle, where they did live remixes of the recordings from Makaya & cos CHICAGOxLONDON performances.

Remixes by Emma-Jean Thackray and Lexus Blondin were added to the pool, at which point Makaya took all the remixes and the raw live recordings from TRC back to his home studio in Chicago, chopped everything up and re-composed the music into two continuous side suites for this CHICAGO x LONDON mixtape.

PERSONNEL:

• Makaya McCraven - (drums)
• Soweto Kinch - (saxophone, voice)
• Theon Cross - (tuba)
• Joe Armon-Jones - (Rhodes piano)
• Nubya Garcia - (saxophone)
• Kamaal Williams - (keyboards)

Recorded live at Total Refreshment Centre 18 & 19 October 2017

TRACKS:

• SIDE A
• A1. Halls ...... 3:49
• A2. Lefto ...... 3:09
• A3. Ox Tales ...... 6:22
• A4. Suite For Artis Gilmore ...... 3:02
• A5. Jupiter Jawn ...... 3:15
• A6. The Oracle ...... 3:18

• SIDE B
• B1. The Bounce! ...... 2:53
• B2. King Drive, '86 Cutlass, No Plates ...... 3:38
• B3. Run 'Dem ...... 7:27
• B4. Too Shy ...... 3:02
• B5. Drums&Bruk&FeelTheVibe ...... 3:03
• B6. Birthday Solo ...... 1:21
• B7. TRC Thank You Outro ...... 0:43
• B8. Where We Come From ...... 1:11