Cancelled: Jamael Dean & The Afronauts

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Address Janáčkovo nábřeží 2, Praha 5 – Smíchov
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Tags Jazz
Entry CZK 550
Venue's website www.jazzdock.cz…

Hailing from the Los Angeles jazz circles is keyboard player, producer and composer Jamael Dean. The grandson of legendary soul jazz drummer Donald Dean has toured with Kamasi Washington, Thundercat, Miguel Atwood-Ferguson and Carlos Niño. Jamael's music reflects the dual influence of his jazz ancestors and Los Angeles contemporaries, including beats, rapping and production under his aliases Jira >< and Jasik, all coming together in a new beat-orientated spiritual jazz. Jamael is also an integral part of the legendary Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra, founded by Horace Tapscott in 1961 and still active in various constellations since then.

Jamael’s grandfather, legendary drummer Donald Dean, sparked his passion for music by taking him to see live performances. After learning the keyboard by ear and subsequently taking lessons, he received a formal jazz education and learned its history. Jamael draws a thorough line between his tradition’s origins and twentieth century jazz. His playing is inspired by pianists who “broke down everything I thought music could be” — the way Hancock’s swagger, Kenny Kirkland and Randy Weston’s percussive playing. Alice Coltrane’s profound spirituality were all moving expressions of the artists’ own personalities. “I love how Alice Coltrane plays the piano like a harp and her genius compositions,” he says.

When creating the songs that became Primordial Waters, his debut album on the legendary Stones Throw label, he both used the tools of his musical education and pushed against those parameters. Jamael is also influenced by hip-hop as jazz. On the songs “Ba’Ra’Ka” and “Orí Inu”, as Jasik (je yato si ika — to separate yourself from the wicked), Dean raps over production created under his Jira >< moniker (ji — to wake strength). He also raps on the tracks Time and Oya, which sample his own composition Ṣàngó.

Performing artists

Poland
Jazz, Funk, Afrobeat

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