Bassist antiddote is mentoring a gifted group of student musicians. They'll open for him on Saturday at the Clef Club, part of the 20th-anniversary celebration of Quite Sane's debut album.
None of the young musicians filing into the studio at WRTI on Monday evening had even been born when bassist Anthony Tidd released, the debut album by his band Quite Sane, in 2002. For this generation, that album’s fusion of jazz and hip-hop is second nature. Asked about their influences, each one shrugged and said something like, “All genres,” before listing off artists ranging from Prince to Herbie Hancock to Queen to De La Soul.
Even in 2002, Quite Sane’s blend of jazz and hip-hop wasn’t exactly a new idea; Guru had released his landmarknearly a decade earlier, in 1993, and jazz icon Miles Davis had collaborated with producer Easy Mo Bee two years before that. A Tribe Called Quest had been incorporating jazz elements into their music since the dawn of the 1990s.
The bassist has set all of those outside projects to refocus on Quite Sane for the first time in two decades. The band’s long-awaited second album will be released this fall, celebrated by a Sept. 22 performance at the Boot and Saddle with some of the original members of Quite Sane followed by a pair of concerts at New York’s Jazz Gallery. The series of events kicks off on Saturday with an improvised gig featuring Tidd, saxophonist Greg Osby, pianist Orrin Evans, and emcee Kokayi.
Tidd honed that educational approach for most of the 2010s directing the Kimmel Center’s Creative Music Program and hosting the monthly Sittin’ In jam sessions. He laments the loss of those efforts, through which he strove to bring diverse and underserved audiences into the Kimmel’s spaces. When the Clef Club invited him this year to appear as part of its Jazz Cultural Voices series, he seized on the opportunity to add an educational component to the event.
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