INTERVIEW/PROFILE: Stefon Harris Blackout: E Pluribus Urban

Five years ago, vibraphonist and marimba player Stefon Harris started Blackout, a troupe of music mercenaries adept in the language of jazz, the strut of soul music and the raucous ruckus of breakbeats, go-go and new-jack rhythms. The band's second recording, Urbanus, showcases the unit's tightly knotted mooring to the jazz tradition — that is, the ability to lend its members' audible personae to an ongoing sonic commentary. This is what the next generation of jazz masters sounds like tod...

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