He’s also made three albums under his own name: 2013’s 3ChordFold, 2016’s Velvet Portraits, and now Drones, which was just announced today and is out on Friday. He tours in Herbie Hancock’s band and is producing the keyboard legend’s next album, which also features Thundercat. On the jazz side, Martin has been a part of Robert Glasper’s Black Radio projects and is a member of two all-star groups, Dinner Party and R+R=NOW. And of course, he worked extensively on Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp A Butterfly, bringing jazz and hip-hop (and rock, and poetry, and audio theater) together on that album’s complex, multilayered tracks. He’s worked with Snoop Dogg since 2004, producing tracks for his albums and leading his live band in 2011 - a band that also included trumpeter Keyon Harrold, tenor saxophonist Kamasi Washington, Thundercat on bass, and Robert “Sput” Searight of Snarky Puppy on drums! He’s also produced for DJ Quik, Kurupt, Talib Kweli, Murs, YG, Big K.R.I.T., Rapsody, Wiz Khalifa, 2 Chainz. It didn’t start to work until recently, when a generation of musicians who had grown up listening to hip-hop, breathing it like air, took their place in the jazz world.Īlto saxophonist and producer Terrace Martin is one of them. But there were always players who defended the new music, and by the early ’90s jazz artists were attempting crossover projects. Hip-hop’s locked-in, mechanical funk beats were seen as antithetical to the loose, human swing of jazz. Back in the ’80s, jazz and hip-hop were often seen as being in conflict.

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