Makaya McCraven opens the Pittsburgh International Jazz Festival June 20

Drummer, producer and sonic collagist Makaya McCraven studied under Archie Shepp, Marion Brown and Yusef Lateef, and then to the Chicago scene. He has created a jazz-informed musical concept which takes technology and improvisation and creates something altogether new.

Makaya McRaven

Makaya McRaven

McCraven is an internationally known jazz artist and next-wave composer producer, blurring the boundaries of jazz and electronic music. Hear him at the August Wilson African American Cultural Center, downtown, Thursday, June 20th at 8 — Tickets at $13.75.