{"id":88634,"date":"2017-03-05T14:47:47","date_gmt":"2017-03-05T12:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/afrofuturistic-cosmic-jazz-comes-to-the-motherland-the-conversation\/"},"modified":"2017-03-05T14:47:47","modified_gmt":"2017-03-05T12:47:47","slug":"afrofuturistic-cosmic-jazz-comes-to-the-motherland-the-conversation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/afrofuturistic-cosmic-jazz-comes-to-the-motherland-the-conversation\/","title":{"rendered":"Afrofuturistic, cosmic jazz comes to the Motherland | The Conversation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Afrofuturistic, cosmic jazz comes to the Motherland<\/a>: <\/p>\n

Saxophonist Kamasi Washington will be performing at the 2017 Cape Town International Jazz Festival.<\/span> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The golden era days of jazz-rap occurred during the late 1980s and early 1990s. Hip-hop artists of the time sampled jazz and funk records to create their sound. <\/p>\n

Unlike then, we are now entering an age where jazz and funk artists are redefining the boundaries and the sound of hip-hop. The Cape Town International jazz festival has tapped into this new age. A number of these musical trailblazers are coming to the African motherland soon, where their musical prowess will be showcased at the annual festival.<\/p>\n

Some context on these musicians: They do this delineation by fusing genres like spiritual\/cosmic jazz, Pfunk and West Coast hip-hop with ideologies of black consciousness, Afrofuturism and syncretic black spirituality.<\/p>\n

We also see more of an emphasis on collaboration between hip-hop artists and contemporary jazz musos. Not only well versed in the golden era hip-hop, these jazz musicians also know their way around the jazz of yesteryear. This interaction sees more interplay between traditional hip-hop sampling methods and a jazz-based composition, improvisation and performance aesthetic in hip-hop. A prime example of this development can be found in songs like Kendrick Lamar\u2019s \u201cFor Free? (Interlude)\u201d, \u201cAstral Progressions\u201d by contemporary jazz trumpeter Josef Leimberg featuring rapper Kurupt and the works of artists like the Canadian jazz band, Badbadnotgood.<\/p>\n