Karibu

Lionel Loueke, a guitarist from Benin who was still relatively unknown, played on Herbie Hancock's River: The Joni Letters (2007). The album won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 2008, a rare triumph for a jazz record over mainstream pop and rock competition.

Marcus Gilmore's grandfather was himself a celebrated jazz drummer, but Gilmore made his own name in a very different setting: alongside the mathematically minded pianist Vijay Iyer on Historicity (2009) and Accelerando (2012), building a rhythmic language far removed from his grandfather's lineage.