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Yussef Dayes - Black Classical Music (2023 Brownswood Gatefold 2LP, Black Vinyl)

Yussef Dayes

Brownswood Recordings / Nonesuch

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Yussef Dayes - Black Classical Music | 2 x Vinyl LP - Brownswood Recordings (BWOOD0310LP, gatefold, black vinyl)

Black Classical Music is the record that confirmed Yussef Dayes as one of the most important drummers of his generation. Dayes had already made his name in the London scene, first with the broken, hypnotic grooves of Yussef Kamaal and then in his duo album with Tom Misch, but this 2023 debut under his own name is his fullest statement, a sprawling double album that gathers jazz, Afrobeat, hip hop, soul and orchestral music under a single, pointed title. The playing is built around his drumming, loose and enormous and endlessly inventive, with the young bassist Rocco Palladino locked in alongside him on most of the record. Around that core Dayes assembles a huge cast: Shabaka Hutchings on bass clarinet, Tom Misch on guitar, the reggae star Chronixx, the American vocalist Masego, and, on two tracks, the Chineke! Orchestra, Europe's first majority-Black orchestra, whose presence makes the album's argument explicit. Across nineteen tracks the music moves from the hard-swinging to the meditative to the celebratory, and it never feels like a drummer's showcase so much as a bandleader's vision.

The title is a statement of intent. By calling this music black classical music, Dayes places jazz and the Black diasporic tradition on the same footing as the European canon, an idea that has been argued for decades and that his generation of London musicians has done much to advance. The album was widely acclaimed and a commercial success, and it helped carry the scene to a still wider audience. This copy is the standard black vinyl edition, a gatefold double LP on Brownswood Recordings, Gilles Peterson's label, distributed through Nonesuch, pressed in Germany and mastered by Alex Wharton at Abbey Road.

Catalogue Number: BWOOD0310LP

Format: 2 x Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue

Country: Worldwide

Released: 2023

Tracklist

A1 Black Classical Music
A2 Afro Cubanism
A3 Raisins Under The Sun
A4 Rust
A5 Turquoise Galaxy
B1 The Light
B2 Pon Di Plaza
B3 Magnolia Symphony
B4 Early Days
B5 Chasing The Drum
C1 Birds Of Paradise
C2 Gelato
C3 Marching Band
C4 Crystal Palace Park
C5 Presidential
D1 Jukebox
D2 Woman's Touch
D3 Tioga Pass
D4 Cowrie Charms

Release notes

Label: Brownswood Recordings – BWOOD0310LP, Nonesuch – 5054197580444, Warner Music Group – 5054197580444, Cashmere Thoughts Recordings – 5054197580444
Format: 2 x Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue
Country: Worldwide
Released:2023
Genre: Hip Hop, Jazz
Style: Afrobeat, Contemporary Jazz, Jazz-Funk

Credits:
Backing Vocals – Venna* (tracks: C3, D3)
Backing Vocals, Vocals, Bass, Lead Guitar – Chronixx (tracks: B2)
Bass – Adrian "Jerks" Henry (tracks: B2), Alex Bonfanti (tracks: D1), Maxwell Hunter (tracks: C3), Rocco Palladino (tracks: A1 to A3, A5, B1, B5, C1, C2, D2, D3)
Bass Clarinet – Shabaka Hutchings (tracks: A3)
Congas, Percussion – Alexander Bourt (tracks: A1 to A3, B5, C1, C2, D1 to D3)
Drums – Yussef Dayes
Drums [Additional Drums] – Tito Oliveira Da Souza
Effects [Live FX] – Rory Cashmere Pagan (tracks: A2, B5, C2)
Guitar – Miles James (2) (tracks: A3, B1, B2, C2, D1, D5)
Guitar, Bass, Keyboards, Vocals – Tom Misch (tracks: A4)
Keyboards, Synthesizer – Charlie Stacey (tracks: A5, B1, B5, C1, D2, D3, D5), Laurie Blundell (tracks: D1)
Keyboards, Vocals – Jahaan Sweet (tracks: C5)
Percussion – Yussef Dayes (tracks: B2)
Percussion, Vocals – Luzinho Do Jêfe
Performer – Chineke! Orchestra (tracks: B3)
Piano – Charlie Stacey (tracks: A1 to A3, D3)
Saxophone – Venna* (tracks: A1 to A3, A5, B5, C2, C3)
Strings – Chineke! Orchestra (tracks: D3)
Synthesizer – Miles James (2) (tracks: B1, B2, D2, D5), Yussef Dayes (tracks: A4, B2, C5, D2, D3)
Synthesizer, Keyboards – Elijah Fox (tracks: C3, C4)
Trombone – Nathaniel Cross (tracks: A3)
Trumpet – Sheila Maurice-Grey (tracks: A3)
Tuba – Theon Cross (tracks: A3)
Vocals – Bahia Dayes (tracks: B1), Dave Dayes, Jamilah Barry (tracks: D2), Leon Thomas (tracks: D5), Masego (tracks: C3), Paris Fabienne (tracks: B1), Yussef Dayes (tracks: B1, B4)

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