Karriem Riggins - Together LP (STONESTHROW)
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Track List & Sound Clips:
01 | Belle Isle Reprise | clip | ||||
02 | daOOOOOH!! | clip | ||||
03 | Tom Toms | clip | ||||
04 | Because | clip | ||||
05 | F-rd Jingle | clip | ||||
06 | Boy Is Doin' It Right | clip | ||||
07 | Summer Maddness S.A. | clip | ||||
08 | Back In Brazil | clip | ||||
09 | Live at Bert's | clip | ||||
10 | No Way | clip | ||||
11 | 6-4 | clip | ||||
12 | I Need Love | clip | ||||
13 | K. Riffins | clip | ||||
14 | Voyager/5000 | clip | ||||
15 | Bring That Beat Back (next time) | clip | ||||
16 | Matador | clip | ||||
17 | J Dilla The Greatest | clip |
Together LP is second of two LPs that make up the Karriem Riggins album Alone Together.
Karriem Riggins is best known as a jazz drummer and hip-hop producer for artists like Common, Slum Village, Talib Kweli and The Roots, but he doesn’t categorize himself as anything but an artist. He advises younger musicians to do the same.
“You don’t have to put yourself in a box…there’s so many different ways to go,” Riggins says. A student of late jazz bassist Ray Brown, he tours with another Brown protégé, Grammy Award winner Diana Krall. In 2011, he collaborated with former Beatle Paul McCartney in concert and onKisses on the Bottom, McCartney’s first studio release in five years. Names of some of the jazz artists he’s backed reads like the genre’s hall of fame - Hank Jones, Oscar Peterson, Milt Jackson, Donald Byrd and Ron Carter.
But on his solo debut Alone Together, set for an October 23 release on Stones Throw Records, Riggins plants himself firmly as a hip-hop producer with a 34-track instrumental odyssey through nearly every influence on his career thus far. The project was inspired by much of the music he was creating while living in Los Angeles, and also by the love of his son and family.
Now residing in his native Detroit, Riggins is back where it all began. “I feel like I can really breath and stay inspired here, and I have room to set up my lab and be creative,” he says. This is the rationale behind the titleAlone Together, taken from a jazz standard written by Arthur Schwartz and Howard Dietz that begin with the words, “Alone together, above the crowd.”
“Coming back to the machines, I feel like I can really express myself,” Riggins says. “This is the way that I express my rhythms.”
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