Veteran underground Chicago rapper Dan Weiss (aka Verbal Kent) sculpts his syllables to display their contours or even give them jagged edges, but at the same time his flow lends his words a wiggle like Jell-O. He’s found a great partnership with D.C. production duo the Other Guys, who understand how to augment the swing […]
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Percussionist Dan Weiss builds sonic sculptures from snippets of jazz drums on his new album
On Sixteen: Drummers Suite, Dan Weiss uses terse passages from the playing of legendary drummers to build rigorous, complex large-ensemble pieces.
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Masterful hybrid sounds from percussionist Dan Weiss
The percussionist delivers a through-composed gem borrowing from jazz, Indian music, hard rock, and more.
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Gossip Wolf: A White Mystery album announcement? Spring must be coming.
New music from White Mystery and Verbal Kent, a new menswear shop co-owned by Tony Trimm, and more
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Saturday: 2013 Chicago Jazz Festival according to Reader writers
Jason Moran and Gregory Porter highlight a jam-packed third day of Jazz Fest.