Makaya McCraven (born October 19, 1983) is an American jazz drummer and bandleader .
11-655: Makaya may refer to: Given name [ edit ] Makaya McCraven (born 1983), American jazz drummer and bandleader Makaya Nsilulu (born 1977), DR Congo footballer Makaya Ntshoko (born 1939), South African drummer Surname [ edit ] Francis Makaya (born 1975), Congolese footballer Françoise Makaya , Gabonese politician Henrino Makaya , Congolese footballer Julienne Mavoungou Makaya , Congolese politician Paulin Makaya (born 1966), Congolese politician Other [ edit ] Monte Makaya ,
22-453: A professor of African-American and Asian-American Studies at Northwestern University as of 2018. This article on an American jazz drummer is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Apollo Sunshine Apollo Sunshine was an alternative rock band from Boston, Massachusetts . Sam Cohen , Jesse Gallagher, and Jeremy Black originally met in 1997 in Boston, where
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44-509: A trio. In the following years he appeared weekly with other musicians, from which he developed concepts for his 2015 album, In the Moment . He also performed with Kamasi Washington . In 2016 he toured mostly in Europe . After several mix tapes, in 2018 he released the double album Universal Beings , on which he was joined by musicians from New York City , London , and Los Angeles ; the album
55-583: The Congo origin Kongo-language surnames Given names Surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description is different from Wikidata All set index articles Makaya McCraven McCraven was born in Paris , France, to jazz drummer Stephen McCraven [ fr ] and Hungarian singer Ágnes Zsigmondi (of the band Kolinda [1] ) , and from
66-565: The age of three was raised in and around Amherst and Northampton, Massachusetts . At the age of five he played in his father's drum ensemble, the CMSS Bashers, along with some of his father's students. In middle school, he and friends formed a band to accompany his mother's folk singing. In high school, McCraven formed the jazz-hip hop Cold Duck Complex . He studied music at the University of Massachusetts Amherst , becoming part of
77-431: The best Boston band in their 2005 year-end issues. In 2006, Apollo Sunshine toured with The Slip and Sam Champion en route to SXSW. Their third album, Shall Noise Upon , was released on vinyl and as a digital download on August 5, 2008. It was released on CD September 2, 2008. The band has been inactive since 2010. We were just sitting on the couch one day and one said Apollo and someone else said Sunshine and that
88-652: The three were attending a Berklee College of Music summer performance program. The band released their first album, Katonah , in 2003 on SpinART records. The album was recorded in Katonah, New York in a barn which the band converted into a studio, and produced by Andy Edelstein, a professor at Berklee. The first single, " I Was on the Moon ", was released in 2003. The New York Times described their sound as "bouncy 60's-style melodies crack wide open, breaking into outbursts of pummeling and feedback before jumping back into
99-580: The tune. It's all neatly and cleverly plotted, but with a looming chaos that's anything but nostalgic." The band released their second album Apollo Sunshine in 2005. In November 2005, it was named to the Amazon.com Best of 2005: Editors' Picks in Rock list at number 5 and the band was featured in Rolling Stone as an "Artist to Watch". Several Boston alternative weeklies declared Apollo Sunshine
110-559: The university's jazz orchestra and receiving various DownBeat student awards, but did not graduate. In 2007 McCraven moved to Chicago , where he performed in the bands of Bobby Broom , Corey Wilkes [ de ] , Willie Pickens , and with the Occidental Brothers , Marquis Hill , and Jeff Parker . He also worked as a studio musician for Apollo Sunshine and Kris Delmhorst . In 2012 he released his debut album, Split Decision , through Chicago Sessions, leading
121-490: Was nominated for the Jazz Journalists Association Awards in 2019. In DownBeat's 2020 Critics Poll, he was the winner in the "Rising Star" categories of best producer and best drummer of the year. In September, 2022, McCraven released In These Times , a full-length album that had been in development since 2015, through International Anthem . McCraven is married to Nitasha Tamar Sharma ,
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