The Epic – Kamasi WashingtonMay 11th, 2015 or iTunes Price: $11.99 Genre: Jazz Released: May 05, 2015 Customer Ratings (78 Ratings) |
The Epic – Kamasi WashingtonView More By Kamasi Washington Customer ReviewsHistory in the Making (5 stars)Had the privilege of being at the record release party @ The Regent in LA last night. What an unbelievable musical experience. It was part revival meeting, part extraterrestrial space travel. People were in awe and brought together as one living breathing organism by this man's music. All on an otherwise humdrum Monday night! This album is history in the making. Keep on, Kamasi Washington, keep on. The Epic is EPIC!!!!! (5 stars) New music that is really NEW. Jazz is not dead. It is alive and well. Live musicianship and song writing is alive and well. Los Angeles has so many hidden local music treasures. Kamasi Washington and the players on this project are prime examples of them though you’ve seen and heard them play with other groups in other genres all around the world. The legacy of West Coast jazz and Gerald Wilson’s arranging legacy is in tact and going ful Amazing (5 stars) Had the privilege of hearing " Re Run Home" prior to the disc release. All I can say is Amazing!! Some of the best new music I have heard in a long time! Can't wait until the release of the 3 disc set. Jazz is alive and well !!!!!!! BiographyBorn: 1981 in Los Angeles, CAGenre: Jazz Years Active: '00s, '10s Kamasi Washington didn't pick up a saxophone until he was 13 years old, but by that point, he'd been playing several other instruments. That's when he found his calling. Within a couple years, he was the lead tenor saxophonist at Hamilton High School Music Academy in his native Los Angeles. After graduation, he attended UCLA to study ethnomusicology. While enrolled at UCLA, he recorded a self-titled album with Young Jazz Giants, a quartet he had formed with Cameron Graves and brothers Ronald Bruner,...
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