Kassa Overall on Marquis Hill and Jazz “Having a Moment”
In Our Headphones
KEXP
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2026
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Host Evie Stokes sits down again with jazz musician Kassa Overall. Kassa talks about his time in the jazz scenes between Seattle and New York and some of the great talents working today. This time he brings in “Sweet Surrender” by Marquis Hill and talks about the idea of “jazz having a moment” and how he interprets that idea. “Sweet Surrender” comes from Marquis Hill’s latest album, (Beautifulism) Sweet Surrender, out now on Black Unlimited Music Group.
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| 0:00.0 | This is in our headphones. I'm Eby Stokes back this week with Casa Overall, and I'm happy to have you back. |
| 0:07.9 | Hey, glad to be here. What's up? Thanks for making the time. So you brought a song that you're going to share today. Tell me what you brought. |
| 0:16.0 | Sweet Surrender. This is a new song on Marquise hills album and it features zechas paul um these are both |
| 0:27.7 | friends of mine actually people that i've collaborated with um we're just from the same scene in |
| 0:36.1 | new york and and we spend a lot of time doing shows together |
| 0:39.6 | and being around the same world. |
| 0:41.3 | And this one, you know, I'm always watching my homies and my peers, |
| 0:47.2 | you know, because there's music coming out all the time. |
| 0:50.0 | But this was one that we heard it. |
| 0:52.5 | Me and my lady heard it, and we was like, yo, this sounds good. |
| 0:57.3 | Like this sounds, you know what I mean? |
| 0:59.0 | And not only the song and all of that, but the production and everything, it just sounded correct. |
| 1:05.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:06.5 | How did you find it? |
| 1:07.7 | How did you discover it? |
| 1:11.6 | You must remember the exact time. |
| 1:13.6 | I think that actually I think Lauren might have played me this. |
| 1:17.6 | That's my partner and a manager and collaborator. |
| 1:23.6 | And I think she might have played it for me, but I also think I saw it on Instagram, but I might not have listened to it. |
| 1:32.4 | Yeah. |
| 1:33.0 | But I remember driving around in the car and hearing it in the car, and you know that the car experience is different. |
| 1:40.5 | It is. |
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