“We have been playing for audiences that are not necessarily traditional jazz audiences,” says tenor saxophonist Kamasi Washington, by phone from Los Angeles. “The people that come to our shows, a lot of them say that it’s the first time that they have been to a jazz show, but there are also long-standing jazz fans as well.”
The effect, elegance and sheer volume of Washington’s 2015 debut album The Epic shook the notion of genre to its very core.
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