The new cool: how Kamasi, Kendrick and co gave jazz a new groove
Fantastic article on the reinvention of jazz music and its interaction between today’s hip-hop artists.
“When I first played some Coltrane-type stuff on the Pimp a Butterfly sessions, Kendrick got it immediately. ‘I want it to sound like it’s on fire,’ he’d say. That’s the kind of common ground that the best jazz and the best hip-hop have.”