Kip Hanrahan

Musician

Forlisteners of experimental jazz, latin-jazz and fusion; fans of collaborative, producer-led projects.
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The Profile

Kip Hanrahan (born 1954 in the Bronx) is an American percussionist, composer and record producer known for blending jazz, Latin and Afro-Caribbean styles and for assembling large collaborative ensembles.

Reviews and public sources note collaborations with artists such as Bill Laswell, Arto Lindsay, Carla Bley, Jack Bruce, Anton Fier, Dave Liebman and Jamaladeen Tacuma. Hanrahan is associated with the American Clave label and a series of fusion-oriented albums beginning in the early 1980s.

DeBaser hosts two reviews that praise Kip Hanrahan's fusion of jazz, Latin and Afro-Caribbean sounds. Reviewers highlight his skills as percussionist, composer and bandleader and note important collaborators. Key albums discussed are Vertical's Currency (1984) and the debut Coup De Tete.

Notable Quotes

❝ "Don't tell me I can't lose what I don't have, because I can lose everything I want".

❝ Kip Hanrahan is a legend in all of Afro-American music, a great percussionist, an excellent composer but above all a brilliant conductor, in the sense of having that ability to blend many musicians with the most diverse backgrounds.