YUSSEF KAMAAL - Black Focus LP Electronic to choices in tempo and

to choices in tempo and phrasing

grooving tempo shifts

the seven tracks on What Does it Mean to Be American

his unique contributions can be felt throughout the album

Her first album was a combined effort produced by Don Was (Blue Note’s Renaissance Music Man and previously leader of post disco combo Was Not Was)

YUSSEF KAMAAL - Black Focus LP Electronic to choices in tempo andThe borders between Londons 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 genres 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