Black Arts Legacies: Kassa Overall fuses hip-hop and jazz

Black Arts Legacies: Kassa Overall fuses hip-hop and jazz

Editor's note: This story is one of more than 55 profiles of influential Seattle artists past and present who are featured in our Black Arts Legacies project. Explore more dancers, painters, poets, musicians, actors, DJs, sculptors and creatives of all kinds. Dressed in a bright papaya-colored two-piece, Kassa Overall sits behind a drum kit and takes the mic at NPR’s iconic Tiny Desk.“Are you ready to ball?” he asks the crowd during the 2023 con…