Today, February 7th, is James Dewitt Yancey’s Birthday. In remembrance, one of Dilla’s close friends and collaborators, Karriem Riggins, sat down at Iron Works Studios in Eagle Rock to touch on his friend’s legacy, and bang out a tune in his honor.
Watch “J Dilla The Greatest” from Karriem’s Stones Throw debut, Alone Together.
The opening and ending track is “Ooooaaaa”, another Karriem production from Alone together.
iTunes: Alone Together – Karriem Riggins
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Karriem Riggins drops “Chopped Worm” in tribute to Sugarfoot.
Karriem: “My idea was to chop a song that is so important to hip hop and also pay homage to 1 of the funkiest groups from one of the funkiest states. Ohio Players’ music will forever be relevant! RIP Sugarfoot.”
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Karriem Riggins dops the posse cut to “Matador,” with new verses from Krondon, Homeboy Sandman, Guilty Simpson & Jonwayne.
Cuts by J Rocc.
iTunes: Alone Together – Karriem Riggins
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New Karriem Riggins video “Round The Outside,” from the album Alone Together.
Directed by Tuomas Vauhkonen and Jeremias Nieminen
iTunes: Alone Together – Karriem Riggins
Tuomas and Jeremias were the winners of the Stones Throw video contest last year, with their incredible clip for J Dilla’s “Last Donut of the Night” and they’ve managed to blow our minds once again.
We finally get a video for Karriem Riggins’ Alone Together album. This is “Summer Madness” (also incorporating a piece of “Matador”).
Directed by Donavan Glover and Gerard Victor
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Download: Karriem Riggins – Matador
Here’s the latest from Karriem Riggins’ 34-track instrumental hip-hop album Alone Together.
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Download: Karriem Riggins “Summer Maddness S.A.”
With the release of the Together LP, Karriem Riggins leaks “Summer Maddness S.A..”
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Download: Karriem Riggins – Moogy Foog It
Karriem Riggins is best known as a jazz drummer and hip-hop producer for artists like Common, Slum Village, Talib Kweli and The Roots, but he doesn’t categorize himself as anything but an artist. He advises younger musicians to do the same.
“You don’t have to put yourself in a box…there’s so many different ways to go,” Riggins says. A student of late jazz bassist Ray Brown, he tours with another Brown protégé, Grammy Award winner Diana Krall. In 2011, he collaborated with former Beatle Paul McCartney in concert and on Kisses on the Bottom, McCartney’s first studio release in five years. Names of some of the jazz artists he’s backed reads like the genre’s hall of fame – Hank Jones, Oscar Peterson, Milt Jackson, Donald Byrd and Ron Carter.
But on his solo debut Alone Together, set for an October 23 release on Stones Throw Records, Riggins plants himself firmly as a hip-hop producer with a 34-track instrumental odyssey through nearly every influence on his career thus far. The project was inspired by much of the music he was creating while living in Los Angeles, and also by the love of his son and family.
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Download: Stones Throw Podcast 74:Karriem Riggins Produced That (iTunes)
TRACK LIST:
Intro
Take It Back – Kweli & Marsha Ambrosius
Walk On By – Karriem Riggins
Soldier – Badu
Walkin’
Step It Off – Dwele’
Pete Rock
E And 1 Equals None – Proof
Uncle Raheim – Consequence
T3
Tainted – Slum Village
Tainted – 50 Cent
Aerodynamic (Remix) – Daft Punk
Elzhi
We B Dem – Slum Village
Music Kaleidoscope – Karriem Riggins
M.E.D.
Classic – M.E.D. & Kweli
Jump Up – Kweli
Vip In – Phat Kat
The Clapper – J Dilla
Common
7 – 8 Karriem – Poyser – Hodge
Next Time – Common & Queen Latifah
Interlude
Hustle – Common
Play Your Cards Right – Common & Bilal
Virgo – Karriem Riggins
Erykah Badu
Fall In Love – Erykah Badu
Love – Karriem Riggins
Actin Normal – Baatin
S.O.U.L – Slum Village
Quills Intro – The Roots
Quills – The Roots
Mona Lisa – Black Thought
Outro
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Karriem Riggins & Common’s performance @ the Detroit Jazz Festival 2011.
