On May 4th, 2024, Jamael Dean sat at the bench of a grand piano at 2220 Arts + Archives in Los Angeles. He didn’t know what he’d play until his fingers struck the ivory. For the next hour, the prodigious jazz talent improvised a solo piano set, seamlessly weaving together original compositions, improvisations and reconstructions of jazz standards. ‘Oriki Duuru’, which means ‘piano poems’ in Yoruba, is an unabridged recording of what unfolded that night. The concert at 2220 was curated by jazz archivist Harmony Holiday, who also wrote the liner notes for this record.