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Makaya Mccraven at Vermont Jazz Center
Courtesy of Robby Roiter | Posted on January 29, 2024
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Sun, February 18, 2024
8:00 pm
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Makaya McCraven
Sunday 2/18/24
at 4 pm
Drummer Makaya McCraven “has quietly become one of the best arguments for jazz’s vitality” (New York Times). His most recent album, In These Times, has been singled out as one of the best jazz albums by the New York Times, Pitchfork, Stereogum, NPR and others.
Born in Paris and raised in the Amherst, Massachusetts area, McCraven grew up in a household where he was immersed in music. As a child he quickly took to drums, the instrument of his father, Stephen McCraven, jazz drummer who was in the bands of Archie Shepp and Yusef Lateef. ...