Hot on the heels of winning the Doris Duke Artist Award, drummer, composer, producer, and rapper Kassa Overall delivers CREAM, his fourth long-player and second album on Warp. While jazz and hip-hop have been bound together since Guru released Jazzmatazz in 1993, this set turns that notion on its head. CREAM, named after Wu-Tang Clan’s “Cash Rules Everything Around Me,” offers hip instrumental versions of seven rap classics and a cover of “Freedom Jazz Dance,” an Eddie Harris tune immortalized by Miles Davis. Overall reimagines hip-hop classics as jazz standards, exploring compositional architectures and subtle harmonies, and nearly discovering hidden rhythmic complexities. The music was recorded live in studio and released without overdubs,…