Description
Label Review.
2019 debut album.
Our Overview.
‘Black Space Tapes’ is the uber sensational debut release from 20-year-old jazz prodigy Jamael Dean’s via Stones Throw Records. Pianist, producer, writer Jamael has already collaborated and performed with the likes of Kamasi Washington - at age 15 on Kamasi’s 2018 album ‘Heaven And Earth’ - Thundercat, Miguel Atwood-Ferguson and Carlos Niño.
Jamael’s music reflects the dual influence of his contemporaries in the Los Angeles scene and that of jazz ancestors including Sun Ra, Alice Coltrane, Herbie Hancock and soul jazz drummer Donald Dean - who is also his grandfather. The Los Angeles scene, he says, is “the only place I can go in the same day to a jam session with music from the 20s and 30s to another session with music in the 40s through the 80s, and after that play music with my friends from that era onwards."
‘Black Space Tapes’ is co-produced, compiled and sequenced by Carlos Niño, internationally celebrated producer, composer, arranger and DJ.