Makaya McCraven – In The Moment (Vinyl) The Woods and then there was everybody

and then there was everybody else

five ballads from a 1955 session with Harry Edison and Benny Carter

Something that rare

Corner of My Eye

at perhaps the freest

Makaya McCraven – In The Moment (Vinyl) The Woods and then there was everybodyOne venue, 28 shows and 48 hours of live, improvised music. These are the ingredients for Chicago based drummer Makaya McCraven's album In the Moment. However, McCraven, as the producer he also is, has not just thrown some random sounds together. Instead, he has carefully culled, cut and remixed the music into a coherent whole and 19 complex and catchy compositions emerge from his hands. The meeting between completely fresh improvisations from some of