Yussef Kamaal - Yo Chavez from Black Focus - old-school jazz-funk
The borders between London’s musical tribes have always been porous. For Yussef Kamaal, the sound of the capital – with its hum of jungle, grime and broken beat – has shaped a self-taught, UK-tipped approach to playing jazz. In the states, the genre’s long-running to-and-fro with hip hop – from Robert Glasper to Kamasi Washington – has reimagined it within US culture. On Black Focus, Yussef Kamaal frame jazz inside the bass-saturated, pirate radio broadcasts of London.
Taking inspiration from the anything-goes spirit of ‘70s jazz-funk, on albums by Herbie Hancock or the Mahavishnu Orchestra, it’s a loose template with plenty of room to experiment. The pair, made up of Yussef Dayes and Kamaal Williams (aka Henry Wu), have had little in the way of formal training. Instead, their musical tastes – and approach to playing – are indebted to Thelonious Monk’s piano as much as the drum programming of Kaidi Tatham.
Both hail from South East London, crossing paths in 2007 as teenagers playing their first pub gigs around Peckham and Camberwell. Dayes drums for cosmically-inclined, afrobeat outfit United Vibrations, while Williams – on top of drumming and playing keys in different incarnations over the years – has made waves with his solo, synth-draped house 12"s for much-fêted labels like 22a and Rhythm Section.
Just like on Earth, other planets in the solar system also have auroras. Jupiter’s auroras are the strongest in the solar system. These images were captured by the Juno, Galileo and Hubble probes.
By LP Ǽkili Ross (#@LPAE38) > WWW.BYLP.ART Title: Before Divinity [29.3" x 36.3"] {2018} Series: Divinity Medium: Digital Stencil Collage Portrait of Lineisy Montero
Misty is a very confident physical woman. She’s a cop, plays ball, fights, shoots and her entire life has been built around the physical. After losing her arm, she loses her identity. She goes on to embody the resilience of the survivors, that despite all of the surgeries and physical pain and mental, emotional strain they went through.
They were able to get prosthetics and rebuild their lives. — Simone Missick
I got insect thoughts, catch the cool ways Clouds of purple haze keep me in a daze The jazz, the jive, the poetry The style, the lingo, the bags of equality Many different things try to get to me But in a world of hard rock, I keep my humility The funkanaut from the kingdom of not With galactic sure shot, they can’t won’t don’t stop
More than 400 years after Galileo Galilei discovered the first of Jupiter’s moons, astronomers have found a dozen more — including one they’ve dubbed “oddball” — orbiting the planet. That brings the total number of Jovian moons to 79.
The team of astronomers originally wasn’t even looking for the 12 new moons. Scott Sheppard of the Carnegie Institution for Science says he and his colleagues had been trying to track down a giant planet they think may be lurking at the outer reaches of our solar system.
As part of that search, Sheppard was using the 4-meter Víctor Blanco Telescope in Chile in March of last year and realized that Jupiter was right near the part of the sky he wanted to search.
“So we could also search for Jupiter moons while looking for things that are well beyond Pluto,” Sheppard says.
Length of cotton with design of crested waves in white on a
blue ground created by stencil resist-dyeing (katazome or chûgata). Mid-19th century, Japan.
Denman Waldo Ross Collection; gift of Denman Waldo Ross to the MFA
on September 1, 1993.
