Summary: <p>The jazz drummer Jaimeo Brown formed his trio Transcendence back in 2013 – <a class="external-link" href="http://www.wnyc.org/story/new-music-based-gospel-spirituals-folk-hymns/" target="_blank">their first album, also called <em>Transcendence</em></a>, was built around samples of old southern singing married to an inventive mix of blues, jazz, and distant echoes of hip hop. Jaimeo Brown’s Transcendence released <em>Work Songs </em>in 2016, which takes more sampled sounds from America’s past and uses them as the template for a new series of songs. Actually, the samples extend well beyond the States this time, but the song “For Mama Lucy” has a clearly American sound: it’s built around a 1959 recording of an inmate at the Parchman Farm Prison in Mississippi, surrounded by some classic blues guitar from trio member Chris Sholar (Grammy-winning producer of Kanye West, Jay Z, and many others). It's a creative re-appropriation of a complicated cultural back-catalog, and the group stops performed in-studio for a taste of its insightful historical remixing. (From the Archives, 2016.)</p>
