Chicago Music Exchange | 4 years ago
This is the joint right here! For this week's Full Band Friday, Mike leads the CME House Band through Yussef Kamaal's "Joint 17," a mellow groove from the drum-keyboard duo's critically acclaimed 2016 album Black Focus.
In 2008, keyboardist Kamaal Williams met session drummer Yussef Dayes when Williams held his first event, where the band United Vibrations were booked and Dayes played.The two kept in touch and played together on occasion, but upon rehearsing William's solo work for a Boiler Room gig, they started playing as a band. In 2016, the band performed a 20 minute live set at Gilles Peterson's Worldwide Awards, after which Peterson landed them a deal at his Brownswood Recordings record label. Yussef Kamaal recruited additional musicians for Black Focus, including saxophonist Shabaka Hutchings, trumpeter Yelfris Valdes, bassists Tom Driessler and Kareem Dayes, guitarist Mansur Brown and producer Malcom Catto, who "work[ed] by ear" when recording the band "as opposed to having things programmed in", according to Williams. The album was recorded at Quartermass Studios.
Regarding the title Black Focus, Dayes stated that it was "based of a few things. The Black Focus is your typical South London car. We’d be in the studio looking for an idea and see it outside[…] And I think black culture’s been appropriated in a way, but […] people don’t stand up for it. What we’re making is black music, inspired by jazz. People can interpret that title however they want."
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Watch a live improvised version of the song recorded at Tinta Art Cafe, Budapest.
Àbáse & friends - Joint 17 (Yussef Kamaal): https://youtu.be/QXZVD1sCaUk
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