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...