Jamael Dean has been played over 10 times on NTS, first on 11 November 2019. Jamael Dean's music has been featured on 14 episodes.

Pianist, producer, jazz prodigy, and just 20 years old, Jamael Dean has already collaborated and performed with the likes of Kamasi Washington, Thundercat, Miguel Atwood-Ferguson and Carlos Niño. His music reflects the dual influence of his Los Angeles contemporaries and jazz ancestors – Sun Ra, Alice Coltrane, Herbie Hancock and soul jazz drummer Donald Dean, who is also his his grandfather. The Los Angeles scene, he says, is “the only place I can go in the same day to a jam…