“Jamael Dean’s first album, Black Space Tapes, was a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it blast of hip-hop/jazz fusion, breathless and restless and brilliantly immersive: in just six tracks and 37 minutes, the LA piano prodigy appeared all over his hometown’s musical map, lacing ecstatic vocal runs with splashes of rap and sampladelic juxtaposition, before snapping you out of it like waking from a daydream, st”
