Apr262024

Yussef Kamaal

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. Read more on Last.fm

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Most Played Tracks as Scrobbled to Last.fm

# Title Plays
1Strings Of Light
264540
2LOWRIDER
190840
3Black Focus
181090
4Remembrance
162198
5Yo Chavez
111654
6Joint 17
106882
7Ayla
83158
8Mansur's Message
82204
9WingTai Drums
79663
10O.G.
53611

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