Kamasi Washington announced a new concert film, Live at the Apollo Theater, out February 6th via Amazon Music. Michael Garber directed the project, which documents the jazzsaxophonist’s headlining February 2019 show at the famed New York venue. Washington paired the announcement by issuing “The Bombshell’s Waltz,” a previously unheard track …
Read More »The New Jazz Torchbearer: Kamasi Washington on His Musical Message
Despite all the hosannas he’s garnered up to this point – being hailed as a primary architect of a West Coast jazz revival, featured in the Whitney Museum’s prestigious Biennial and playing to thousands at Coachella – Kamasi Washington, 37, doesn’t see himself as the guy. Sure, he was an …
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