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12/08/2017 - 13/08/2017 10:00 pm - 3:00 am Worldwide: Sunfall Night Session Jazz Cafe, London
The fear across the world that Trump’s ‘extreme vetting’ executive order was a poorly conceived smokescreen to appease an angry, xenophobic minority have been proved once again. After the US consulate initially granted visas to Yussef, Ahmad and Kareem Dayes, they have now been revoked. Between them, they make up...
Any plans for early holidays? Here’s the pretext to take some days off at the end of January, buy a flight to Goa and enjoy one of the most anticipated and thrilling new festivals on the calendar. During the last weekend of January (27th-29th), London-based event organisers GOAT have shaped...
28/01/2017 7:00 pm - 10:30 pm Henry Wu presents: Freddie Hubbard with Yelfris Valdés Jazz Cafe, London
Today, black music is warmth, experimentation, crossbreeding, avant-garde, tradition, and rhythm. Turin’s Jazz Re:Found festival explores these definitions, with a curious and forward thinking vision on music, honouring great names of the past while looking at the most current scenes with a sharp eye and sensitive ear. Spread across seven...
27/01/2017 - 29/01/2017 All Day GOAT Festival Ashvem, Goa
Jazz Re:Found is a rising star on the Italian festival panorama, bringing together new sounds and legendary names from a wide spectrum of genres, all essentially rooted in jazz. This year, at its ninth edition, the festival offers a fine selection of world-renowned artists, with five days of live performances and DJ...
07/12/2016 - 11/12/2016 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm Jazz:Re:Found Festival 2016 Jazz Re:found, Turin
![Album Review: Yussef Kamaal – Black Focus [Brownswood Recordings, 4th November 2016]](http://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/0008156826_10-335x335.jpg)
Black Focus is the culturally influenced debut album from junglist jazz duo Yussef Kamaal, on release with Brownswood Recordings. Delivered with cool attitude, the pair mix raw urban broken-beat grooves with 70’s jazz-fusion organ synth sounds. With hints of hip-hop, UK garage and neo-soul, the album reflects an edgier side...