Makaya McCraven: In The Moment to In These Times

Makaya McCraven needs a coffee–fast. It’s 4pm and he’s crashing. It will be his third of the day. His first caffeine hit, consumed on stage six hours earlier, was a chemical necessity; McCraven was drinking at a nearby Irish pub until the early hours and nearly missed his early morning panel talk appearance alongside fellow percussion luminaries Antonio Sanchez and Nate Smith…