Yussef Dayes

"All Black music is one classical tradition. I needed that frame to make sense of what I do."

On the choice of the title Black Classical Music (2023).

The Yussef DayesYussef Dayesユセフ・デイズ Experience performs in Joshua RedmanJoshua Redmanジョシュア・レッドマン Tree National Park, presented by Soulection and released via Clifford BrownClifford Brownクリフォード・ブラウンswood Recordings.

— The Yussef Dayes Experience - Live at Joshua Tree, 2022

Yussef DayesYussef Dayesユセフ・デイズ performs the title track of his debut solo album 'Black Classical Music' on BBC's Later... with Jools Dave HollandDave Hollandデイヴ・ホランド.

— Yussef Dayes - 'Black Classical Music' | Later... with Jools Holland, 2023

Yussef DayesYussef Dayesユセフ・デイズ inscribed his thesis directly into the title of his solo Black Classical Music: that the whole of Black music constitutes a single classical tradition. In Loud And Quiet he said he needed that frame in order to step away from his work with Tom Misch and face his own family history.

— Yussef Dayes: I've always been on a search to study rhythm, Loud And Quiet, 2023

Yussef Kamaal, the duo Yussef DayesYussef Dayesユセフ・デイズ formed with Kamaal Williams in 2016, released only one record on Brownswood before splitting. In Loud And Quiet, Dayes recalled that they had simply bottled the heat of southeast London at that moment and never intended a sequel.

— Yussef Dayes: I've always been on a search to study rhythm, Loud And Quiet, 2023

"All Black music is one classical tradition. I needed that frame to make sense of what I do." — Yussef DayesYussef Dayesユセフ・デイズ on the title of Black Classical Music (2023).

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