Black Focus (Vinyl LP) Jazz

Black Focus (Vinyl LP) JazzBrownswood Recordings has high hopes for this debut album from the previously unheralded Yussef Kamaal, which brings together hyped producer Kamaal Williams (AKA Henry Wu) and fast rising Afrobeat drummer Yussef Dayes. With such talent to draw on, you'd expect Black Focus to be rather good. Happily, it is, with the duo delivering a typically London centric take on jazz funk. That means that they take as much inspiration from the work of Kaidi Tatham

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Pressed on opaque blue vinyl with multicolour splatter

Robert Smith pulled another surprise from his trick bag on Wild Mood Swings

who recalls Coming from Reality as his favourite ever recording project

Described as the 'Responsible adult to 'Time's' reckless teenager

The legendary Disk Union Japan and 180g present the best of today's Brazilian music

who is joined by a fresh group musicians that connects all corners of the London contemporary jazz landscape

To leverage visionary control

especially on the three opening cuts: a dazzling sequence of lightning reflexes

Tenor saxophonist Lester Young (The President) cut some of his greatest recordings in the 1950s

You might be transported to a German autobahn after nightfall

of inspiration and of ideas are Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie