We started the Karriem Riggins’ Virtuoso Experience Tour, brought to you by VTech, on the 22nd of June in Seattle at the Triple Door, down to Oakland at Yoshi’s on the 24th and 25th and tonight, we bring you the final show of the KRVE to DAKOTA JAZZ in Minnesota with DJ Dummy.

Karriem Riggins' Quartet

Tonight is your last night to experience the Virtuoso Experience. Your last chance to be up front and center of Karriem’s musical talent. Come and see for yourself as the Karriem Riggins’ Quartet effortlessly move between genres, capturing the hearts and ears of music lovers all over.  With Karriem on drums, Mulgrew Miller on piano and rhodes, Warren Wolf on vibes and Joe Sanders on bass, this band is a wealth of talent, bursting with energy and filled with music. Drawing from musical sources as diverse as Tony Williams, Cesar Camargo Mariano and Burt Bachrach, fans will be clamoring for more.

Understanding music through the kaleidoscopic lens of jazz is daunting. But it’s a challenge made for virtuoso drummer, multiinstrumentalist, rapper, and arranger Karriem Riggins.

Riggins allows jazz’s free-flowing aesthetic to guide his quest to study genres, explore amorphous coagulations of sound, and synthesize diverse sonic influences and life experiences. His muse opens an expansive universe of musical possibilities….Whether playing drums for powerhouses like Ray Brown and Herbie Hancock or producing and rhyming with Madlib, Riggins shows a rare adeptness at either transcending or crossing skillfully between musical traditions.

-San Francisco Bay Guardian

Pete Rock and Karriem Riggins at Yoshi's in Oakland

Karriem is in a beautiful enviable position:  By day he can cook with the best of those in the jazz and he STILL maintains his respect from the veterans of that world (He is from the D like Elvin Jones). Then at night he cooks some treats up on his MPC3000 that I KNOW for a fact has a fellow former resident of the D smiling down and snapping his neck from the gates of heaven tapping the shoulders of Jimi & Donny & James & Minnie talking about “See that cat right there? That’s MY cat right there!!!!…..” (*yells to gabriel at the speaker controls) “TURN IT UP!”  I can only DREAM to have this position.

-?uestlove of the Roots

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