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The New Yorker calls Meshell Ndegeocello "the most significant bassist this country has produced since the advent of Charles Mingus and Flea," but even that's selling short her remarkable contribution to the American Songbook. The D.C. area native has always eschewed genre for originality, celebrity for longevity, and musical trends for musical truths. Fans have come to expect the unexpected on her sojourns into soul, R&B, jazz, Hip-Hop and rock, all bound by a search for love, justice, respect, and resolution. Those sonic investigations have defied and redefined the expectations for women, queer artists, and Black musicians for more than 30 years. Ndegeocello remains one of few women who write the music, sing the songs, lead the band, and produce the albums. Her latest album, No More Water, is a collaborative tribute to James Baldwin featuring the poet Staceyann Chin and the musical trio The HawtPlates. Don't miss this American original, bearing the fruit of a life's work still in progress.

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