One of the most exciting and innovative artists in modern jazz and hip-hop is teaming up with the iconic Third Man Records for an explosive live album. Kassa Overall and Third Man Records are set to release Live at Third Man Records on April 19. The album will be available digitally as well as vinyl and was recorded in 2022 at Third Man Records Nashville location.
Kassa Overall’s Live At Third Man Records features longtime collaborator trumpeter Theo Croker, the Detroit native Ian Finkelstein, a protegé of the late Geri Allen and Amp Fiddler; Haitian-Canadian percussionist Bendji Allonce, son of Kompa legend Herman Nau; and Tomoki Sanders (they/them), a multi-instrumentalist from Japan and New York whose father was the great Pharoah Sanders. This diverse group of talented musicians has toured together throughout the US and Europe since the fall of 2021.
Third Man Records’ live direct-to-acetate recordings take place in the Blue Room in Nashville, TN, and are cut exclusively on a 1955 Scully lathe that originally came from King Records in Cincinnati. Recorded live in one-shot, with no overdubs, no redo’s, no starting-and-stopping, the process is truly of another time, rendered obsolete by the late 1950s and only available nowadays in TMR’s locations in Detroit and Nashville.
