Kassa Overall w/ Melvin Gibbs

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$22 ADV / $25 DOS (General Admission) 7:00pm Show Get Tickets Photo by Patrick O’Brien Smith Kassa Overall plays two nights at Berlin. Bass wizard Melvin Gibbs opens this show. Band Members: Kassa Overall - Drums Matt Wong - Piano Emilio Modeste - Sax Giulio Xavier - Bass ⊹ If you’re trying to understand the future of jazz, turn your attention to Kassa Overall . Revered by living icons and underground tastemakers, he began his career behind the drum kit. Some of his earliest gigs were at a Starbucks on the corner of Seattle’s 23rd and Jackson, an intersection name-checked in Sir Mix-A-Lot’s “Posse on Broadway,” just blocks from Jimi Hendrix’s childhood home and down the street from Garfield High School, an alma mater Kassa shares with Seattle’s black musical pantheon: Jimi, Quincy Jones, and Digable Planets’s Ishmael Butler. Kassa was raised in the city's South End by parents he describes as a “black bohemian father and a white hippie mother.” One favored Ornette Coleman, the other Bob Dylan. They had met at a live-in spiritual center, pursuing a path of meditation and prayer. Kassa