Sons of Kemet: Live at Big Ears Festival, JAZZ NIGHT IN AMERICA

Watch Sons of Kemet Recorded Live at Big Ears Festival Jazz built for A friend and former rock critic shared this admiring assessment of Sons of Kemet, after seeing the band for the first time at this year s Big Ears Festival. There s obviously truth in it: Over the last eight years, Sons of Kemet has not only fueled the fires of a raging London jazz scene; it has also scaled up the pyrotechnics, in strictly musical terms. With Shabaka Hutchings on tenor saxophone, Theon Cross on tuba, and Nache Edward and Tom Skinner on drums, it s a hardy combustion engine that also feels like a breathing organism. Arenas, sure, but this is also jazz built for street parties. And certain proudly eclectic fests. At Big Ears in Knoxville, Tenn. , Sons of Kemet brought its exultant blend of carnival rhythm, club abandon and jazz improv to a midnight show that packed The Mill Mine, a cavernous room that once housed the Industrial Belting and Supply Company. The set drew