Black Focus Electronic in New York

in New York

was ranked #119 on RollingStone’s list of 500 Greatest Albums of All Time in 2012

The Bad Plus offers a strikingly different sound and lineup

The quartet format with the presence of a piano (as opposed to the all-string Quintet of the Hot Club of France which was the guitarist’s most common setting)

For Angel and Tha Brothahood – which includes Deacon Otis Cooke (vocals

Black Focus Electronic in New YorkOn Black Focus, Yussef Kamaal frame jazz inside the bass saturated, pirate radio broadcasts of London. Taking inspiration from the anything goes spirit of 70s jazz funk, on albums by Herbie Hancock or the Mahavishnu Orchestra, its a loose template with plenty of room to experiment. The pair, made up of Yussef Dayes and Kamaal Williams (aka Henry Wu), have had little in the way of formal training. Instead, their musical tastes and approach to playing