Headnod Suite, by Karriem Riggins

Headnod Suite

by Karriem Riggins

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Hip-hop instrumentals - second solo album from Karriem Riggins.

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1.	Suite Intro 00:49	buy track
2.	Other Side of the Track 02:57	buy track
3.	Yes Yes Y'all 02:06	buy track
4.	Invasion 01:29	buy track
5.	Trombone Love 01:27	buy track
6.	Crystal Stairs 02:53	buy track
7.	Sista Misses 01:34	buy track
8.	Detroit Funk 02:44	buy track
9.	Oddness 01:41	buy track
10.	Tandoor Heat 02:45	buy track
11.	Chop Chop 01:17	buy track
12.	My Reflection 01:46	buy track
13.	Dirty Drum Warm Up 01:41	buy track
14.	Pay.gio 02:23	buy track
15.	Suite Poetry feat. Jessica Care Moore 03:18	buy track
16.	4Es'J 01:58	buy track
17.	Joy and Peace 02:36	buy track
18.	Cheap Suite 1 01:07	buy track
19.	Cheap Suite 2 02:12	buy track
20.	Cheap Suite 3 01:05	buy track
21.	Cheap Suite 4 01:39	buy track
22.	Never Come Close 01:45	buy track
23.	Re-doze 00:51	buy track
24.	Bahia Dreamin’ 02:10	buy track
25.	Cheap Suite 5 02:23	buy track
26.	Cia 03:13	buy track
27.	Keep It On 01:28	buy track
28.	Fluture 01:47	buy track
29.	Suite Outro – Hodge, Poyser, Riggins 01:54	buy track

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Karriem Riggins is best known as a jazz drummer and hip- hop producer for artists like Common, Kanye West, The Roots, and Kaytranada, but he doesn’t categorize himself as anything but an artist.

“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. He spent much of 2016
at work on Common’s much-heralded Black America Again album, which included a performance at the White House as part of NPR’s “Tiny Desk” series. The son of late keyboardist Emmanuel Riggins, 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.

For Headnod Suite, his second album on Stones Throw Records, Riggins expertly builds on his credentials with 29 tracks of pure hip-hop—each track deftly crafted with swing that only a drummer would know. Swing is the weapon. And there’s always a message, be it verbal or instrumental. “Headnod Suite is a concept of several rhythmic ideas fused together,” Riggins says. “I wanted to explore the power of interludes and marrying different styles and harmony together.”

On Headnod Suite, Common makes a reciprocal vocal appearance on “Yes Yes Y’all,” which gives way to literal grunts from James Brown and the 1-2 shot of “Trombone Love” and the 16-bit funk “Crystal Stairs.” If 2012’s Alone Together was right at the intersection of hip-hop and jazz, Riggins’ current path is less the jazz found in his family and career lineage, and more the hip-hop culture he found on his own.

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released July 10, 2018

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Karriem Riggins Los Angeles, California

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.

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