Masego NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

Watch Masego play Tadow Nayhoo Queen Tings Black Love and I Do Everything at the Tiny Desk More from NPR Music Tiny Desk Concerts a https 3A 2F 2Fwww npr org 2Ftinydesk a Twitter a https 3A 2F 2Ftwitter com 2Fnprmusic a Instagram a https 3A 2F 2Fwww instagram com 2Fnprmusic a July 24 2019 Sidney Madden -- Imagine for a moment if Cab Calloway the Cotton Club's exuberant bandleader was reincarnated in the 21st Century Now imagine if he was dropped in the middle of the music world of today He'd no doubt be a tall and slender silky-wearing goof ball with a moisturized braid-out instruments inscribed as knuckle tattoos and a penchant for genre-blending Yes the spirit of Cab lives on in Masego the singer producer and multi-instrumentalist who surprised NPR's Tiny Desk audience with a zany sense of showmanship and a demonstration of his own genre TrapHouseJazz Masego's five-song set at the Desk wound up feeling something like a jam session props and surprise guests included First before opening with the jazzy Tadow Sego pulled off a quick mini-prank by sending his friend comedian Lorenzo Cromwell up to the mic before stepping forth himself Next Sego tossed up 100 dollar bills with his face on it and beckoned the crowd into a call-and-response of hi-di-hi-di-hi-di-ho Finally to have a few more moments of fun after I Do Everything and to prove he really does do everything Sego juggled water bottles to the rhythm of the luscious music his band providing Born in Jamaica and raised in Virginia Masego grew up on gospel jazz and hip-hop With an appetite for all genres and an ambidextrous nature for learning music the 26-year-old's been mixing all his influences up traveling the world and collaborating with the likes of GoldLink SiR and Ari Lennox Where his sound takes him next is anyone's guess but at the Tiny Desk the multi-hyphenate found his sweet spot SET LIST Tadow Nayhoo Queen Tings Black Love I Do Everything MUSICIANS Masego vocals saxophone Jon Curry drums Dan Foster keys saxophone Maxwell Hunter bass Melanie Faye guitar Lex Nelson vocals Lorenzo Cromwell comedic saxophone CREDITS Producers Abby O'Neill Morgan Noelle Smith Creative Director Bob Boilen Audio Engineers Josh Rogosin Patrick Boyd Videographers Morgan Noelle Smith Kaylee Domzalski CJ Riculan Tsering Bista Associate Producer Bobby Carter Photo Claire Harbage NPR

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