When jazz saxophonist Kamasi Washington was contributing string arrangements ... Washington is earning similar raves for his explorations on “The Epic,” a bold, three-disc statement that ...

Perhaps it was a self-fulfilling prophecy, saxophonist Kamasi Washington introducing his massive three-disc jazz collection called “The Epic” on a Monday night to a sold-out, audibly electric ...

“I’m a daydreamer,” says tenor saxophonist Kamasi Washington, 34, reflecting on the creative process that led to his May 5 release, “The Epic.” The 17-song, three-CD concept album on the ...

Kamasi Washington's masterwork The Epic showcases an incisive saxophonist/composer who has performed with jazz luminaries Gerald Wilson and Herbie Hancock but is probably better known for his work ...

Saxophonist and composer Kamasi Washington, 34, has been working on releasing his now three-CD, nearly three-hour, choir-and-strings-assisted album The Epic for the better part of five years now.

Jazz saxophonist Kamasi Washington, 34, carries all of this with him. While his solo debut album, “The Epic,” doesn’t directly address those events, it feels shaded by them. “A lot of ...

Jazz saxophonist/composer Kamasi Washington has been at it for over ... Pimp A Butterfly and his debut album as a bandleader, The Epic, which came out earlier this month on Flying Lotus‘ label ...

By Lars Brandle Kamasi Washington is the winner of the inaugural American Music Prize for his album The Epic. Washington collected the $25,000 grand prize attached to the AMP, which recognizes the ...

“The Epic,” the tenor saxophonist Kamasi Washington’s big debut on the national stage three years ago, worked partly because it functioned as a provocation — an act of extravagant ambitio ...

More than anything else, Shinichirō Watanabe wanted Kamasi Washington to trust his musical instincts.

Kamasi Washington has never made a dance record before ... on albums like 2018’s Heaven & Earth and 2015’s The Epic, delved into cosmological motifs of grandiose proportions.

You can argue about the various ways Kamasi Washington has impacted jazz culture ... hour jazz-orchestral marathon pointedly titled The Epic. It made the gracefully charismatic saxophonist ...