Bridging the gap

Ben Darwish Trio brings its 'gangsta jazz' sound to Bend's Be Bop Coffee House

By Ben Salmon / The Bulletin
October 20, 2006

Considering their shared origins in urban America, jazz and hip-hop have never gotten to work together quite as much as one might expect.

There are exceptions, of course. The Chicago poet Gil Scott-Heron cut albums with jazz musicians in the 1970s, and the late 1980s gave rise to a movement of....

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