NIKARA presents Black Wall Street live at Winter Jazz Festival, Future x Sounds 2022 Virtual Stage.
Picked by NPR Music´s staff as Top 10 Albums of 2021, vibraphonist, composer, arranger, and educator Nikara Warren is a true Brooklynite. Born and bred in the eclectic and electric enclave, her family, her friends, her band, and her musical pedigree is a microcosm of the county at large. Her grandfather is world-renowned jazz pianist @kennybarron, and she’s the daughter of a half Trinidadian soca/dancehall lover father, and a classic 1990s “Brooklyn ‘Round the Way” girl mother.
Nikara is taking vibes to the people with her infectious compositional sense, her post-modern patchwork of influences and cultural signposts, and her fearless musicality. Her bold quest comes from being well-versed in the vibraphone lineage, but seeking to adventure beyond it.
Her debut album, Black Wall Street, represents a convergence of Nikara’s personal, cultural, familial, and musical journeys. Here, she explores abstract sound-collage, hip-hop, jazz, neo-soul, Afro-Latino and Afro-Caribbean rhythms, and more. The through line here being for Nikara it’s all dance music. Her vision is cohesive but eclectic-just like how people’s identities are a product of their various heritages and associations.
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CREDITS:
Filmed and recorded at HighBreedMusic, New York
Presented by Winter Jazzfest and Future x Sounds
Brice Rosenbloom (Winter Jazz Festival)
Angela Gil (Curator & Stage producer)
Nikara Warren - vibraphone, vocals
Craig Hill - tenor sax
Trumpet - Alonzo Demetrius
Keys - Axel Tosca
Corey Sanchez - Electric Guitar
Parker McAllister - Electric Bass
David Frazier, Jr. - Drums/ spd
Filming & Audio: HighBreedMusic Studios
Keenan McRae - audio engineer
Joe Ceponis - assistant engineer
Cameron Smith - assistant engineer
Sean Weber - videographer
2022 Winter Jazzfest Team
Founder / Executive Producer: Brice Rosenbloom
Film Editor and Videographer: Todd Sines, Scale
Associate Producer: Myles Glover
Media Relations: Matt Merewitz, Fully Altered Media, Julia Casey, Big Feat PR
Director of Production: Mat Pepino
Director of Ticketing, Contracts: Katie Felten
Art Director: Ertac Uygun
Social Media Director: Sydney Hill
Sponsorship: Kelly Markus, Hunters Point, Sherry Reid, Rep and Repeat
Broadcast Host: Keanna Faircloth, WBGO Radio
Opening and Closing Music: Terri Lyne Carrington and Morgan Guerin
3 фев 2022
