The poet and rapper Saul Williams was so important to the ’90s slam-poetry world that he played the lead in the 1998 film Slam, and he’s kept working steadily ever since; we’ve recently posted his collaborations with Deerhoof and Heems. Carlos Niño, meanwhile, is at the center of an entire ambient jazz universe in Los Angeles. He was the main collaborator, for instance, on André 3000’s comeback album New Blue Sun and on all of André’s flute-based activities since then. Now, Williams and Niño have come together to make Saul Williams Meets Carlos Niño & Friends At TreePeople, a new collaborative LP that features a number of other young jazz greats, including Kamasi Washington.
