Equal parts jazz piano virtuoso and electronic sound architect, 21-year-old Angeleno Jamael Dean makes his auspicious debut with Black Space Tapes, co-produced and sequenced by Carlos Niño. Playing primarily with bassist Chris Palmer and drummer Tim Angulo—also incorporating tenor saxophonist/flutist Aaron Shaw, alto saxophonist Devin Daniels, violist Miguel Atwood-Ferguson, trombonist Zekkeraya El-Megharbel, and vocalist Sharada Shashidhar, among others—Dean embeds his free-spirited acoustic jazz aesthetic within ethereal soundscapes and head-nodding beats. Sometimes these worlds overlap, or fade unpredictably from one to the other, with Dean’s exploratory piano and keyboards keeping the music centered. While there’s a band ethos guiding much of the album, “Akamara (Remix)” and “Olokun” are their own self-contained sonic worlds, products of Dean’s fertile imagination, full of promise.