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Part of the series JazzPOP 2024

Jamael Dean and the Afronauts

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JazzPOP celebrates its 17th season this summer, inviting luminaries of West Coast jazz and creative improvised music to the Hammer courtyard for three concerts in August. The 2024 edition features quintets led by three innovative California bandleaders who explore a vast terrain in their dynamic, adventurous music.

Organized by San Francisco Bay Area bassist Lisa Mezzacappa.

Devin Daniels, alto saxophone

Aaron Shaw, tenor saxophone

Jamael Dean, keyboard

Jonathan Richards, bass

Lyndon Rochelle, drums

Los Angeles keyboardist Jamael Dean convenes a quintet of longtime collaborators to navigate his shapeshifting original compositions and fresh takes on jazz standards. Part of a renaissance of next-generation Southern California jazz artists, Dean has collaborated with Kamasi Washington, Thundercat, Miguel Atwood-Ferguson and Carlos Niño, and has performed as a member of the legendary Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra. Pitchfork writes that Dean takes “a wide-eyed view of jazz… to imbibe hip-hop, electronic, R&B, and ambient.”

Jamael Dean - Kronos (Live at Gold Line)
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