UNIVERSAL BEINGS

Universal Beings is jazz drummer / producer Makaya McCraven's new album - his most ambitious, elegant and refined work yet. Recorded at 2 intimate live sessions and 2 pop-up studio sessions across the new jazz hotbed cities of New York, Chicago, London, and Los Angeles, Makaya collaborated with an all-star cast of improvisers (15 musicians in total, including Shabaka Hutchings, Nubya Garcia, Jeff Parker, Miguel Atwood-Ferguson,Tomeka Reid, Brandee Younger and Carlos Nino) to create source material for the signature style of organic beat music production he debuted on the groundbreaking 2015 release In The Moment. The result is this epic, 2xLP set that represents another breakthrough in Makaya's career as a recording artist, as well as a definitive new work of the exciting global groundswell of next-generation, Black musicians re-vivifying and re-articulating jazz in 2018. - LP 1 1 A Queen's Intro 2 Holy Lands 3 Young Genius 4 Black Lion 5 Tall Tales 6 Mantra 7 Pharaoh's Intro 8 Atlantic Black 9 Inner Flight 10 Wise Man, Wiser Woman 11 Prosperity's Fear LP 2 12 Flipped OUT 13 Voila 14 Suite Haus 15 The Newbies Lift Off 16 The Royal Outro 17 The Count Off 18 Butterss's 19 Turtle Tricks 20 The Fifth Monk 21 Brighter Days Beginning 22 Universal Beings