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The borders between London’s musical tribes have always been porous. For Yussef Kamaal, the sound of the capital – with its hum of jungle, grime and broken beat – has shaped a self-taught, UK-tipped approach to playing jazz. In the states, the genre’s long-running to-and-fro with hip hop – from Robert Glasper to Kamasi Washington – has reimagined it within US culture. On Black Focus, Yussef Kamaal frame jazz inside the bass-saturated, pirate radio broadcasts of London.
Tracklist
1. Black Focus (04:34)
2. Strings Of Light (08:28)
3. Remembrance (09:00)
4. Yo Chavez (03:59)
5. Ayla (00:46)
6. O.G. (00:46)
7. Lowrider (04:28)
8. Mansur's Message (02:06)
9. Wingtai Drums (01:16)
10. Joint 17 (08:19)
Cat no: 5060180322908
The borders between London’s musical tribes have always been porous. For Yussef Kamaal, the sound of the capital – with its hum of jungle, grime and broken beat – has shaped a self-taught, UK-tipped approach to playing jazz. In the states, the genre’s long-running to-and-fro with hip hop – from Robert Glasper to Kamasi Washington – has reimagined it within US culture. On Black Focus, Yussef Kamaal frame jazz inside the bass-saturated, pirate radio broadcasts of London.
Tracklist
1. Black Focus (04:34)
2. Strings Of Light (08:28)
3. Remembrance (09:00)
4. Yo Chavez (03:59)
5. Ayla (00:46)
6. O.G. (00:46)
7. Lowrider (04:28)
8. Mansur's Message (02:06)
9. Wingtai Drums (01:16)
10. Joint 17 (08:19)
Cat no: 5060180322908
