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TERRACE MARTIN ‘I DON’T WANT TO BE IN A BOX.’ By Phillip Lutz | Photos by Jimmy & Dena Katz 30 DOWNBEAT FEBRUARY 2017
STRAIGHT OUT OF CRENSHAW IN SOUTHWESTERN LOS ANGELES, saxophonist-keyboardist-producer Terrace Martin has little time for purists who seek to wall off jazz from the struggles of those around him—and, more to the point, from the sound that reflects those struggles: hip-hop. “The cats who still believe in barriers, we don’t see them around,” he said over drinks in Brooklyn in October. “I guess they’re in their box hanging out together.” Decidedly not among those cats is Herbie Hancock, the jazz community’s longtime lodestar of musical pluralism and a champion of Martin’s. “He’s a real producer, a conceptual thinker,” Hancock said. “He’s been at the forefront of a movement of jazz that’s emerging with the youth right now. “In a way what he did with Kendrick on To Pimp A Butterfly kicked it off,” Hancock said, referring to Kendrick Lamar and his groundbreaking work on the Top Dawg label, which won the 2016 Grammy for Best Rap Album with Martin as key producer. “The way jazz was introduced, it was cutting-edge stuff. I’m happy that Kendrick picked up on that and embraced it. He didn’t put the jazz element in the background. It’s right up there in your face.” FEBRUARY 2017 DOWNBEAT 31
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