Ahead of his latest Australian tour, the jazz maestro explains how anime and his four-year-old daughter have inspired his ...

In each of Washington’s tracks you can feel the existential ... chorus as griots who are telling the tale playing out in an epic reality. With “Vortex,” which did become the main theme ...

As a jazz musician, Kamasi Washington knows how to let the unexpected ... it kind of opened the door a bit for me when I put out The Epic," he says. "I felt like it really revolutionized the ...

The Epic, Heaven and Earth, and even Fearless Movement. Kamasi Washington has worked on many of Kendrick Lamar's songs and both the musicians' fans have loved the collaborations. When Kendrick ...

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.

Perhaps best of all, the urgent, charged-up closer “Prologue” sounds pretty much as you’d expect from an epic Kamasi Washington workout, but the track feels more robustly rhythmic, vibrant, ...

Kamasi Washington says that ... Since making his breakthrough with ‘The Epic’ in 2015, the saxophonist has become one of the more unlikely crossover success stories of recent years by taking ...

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 ...

SIX YEARS after winning MOJO’s Album Of The Year award for his 183-minute existential epic Heaven And Earth, Kamasi Washington is back with something completely different. While it’s relatively svelte ...

“I ain’t gonna talk too much,” jazz superstar Kamasi Washington told the audience ... us that we were gathered on the birthday of The Epic, his sprawling jazz opus released May 5, 2015.

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.

With the 2015 edition of the TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival in the rear-view mirror, it may not be too early to look at 2016, especially considering Kamasi Washington’s The Epic.