Multi-instrumentalist, composer, and bandleader Washington unveiled the series' theme song, "Vortex." This ambitious multi-suite jazz number shifts between choral-punctuated ensemble movements, ...

Kamasi Washington reflects on meeting Kendrick Lamar for the first time, revealing how producer Terrace Martin introduced him ...

Kamasi Washington has never made a dance record before. With Fearless Movement, that’s about to change, at least in terms of its conceptual framework. The Los Angeles-based tenor saxophonist, composer ...

Kamasi Washington plays his father’s saxophone. But the Grammy-nominated artist who rose to fame working with legends like Kendrick Lamar and Herbie Hancock didn’t start out on the horn. Nor did he or ...

It’s been a minute since we’ve gotten new Kamasi Washington, as his most recent album is 2018’s Heaven And Earth. His comeback is nigh, though: Today (March 6), he announced the upcoming release of ...

Kamasi Washington has released a short film, “Get Lit,” which was written and directed by Jenn Nkiru. It’s based on the song “Get Lit” on Kamasi’s new album Fearless Movement, but this is not a music ...

“The general public was admitted to new Los Angeles County Museum of Art for the first time on Friday night — not to look at art but to listen to music,” wrote Times music critic Albert Goldberg in ...

To say that jazz saxophonist Kamasi Washington is a fan of Los Angeles is an understatement. “I love how big L.A. is and how it’s like 10 different cities in one,” said the Grammy-nominated Washington ...

Kamasi Washington's idea of heaven is the world he creates and retreats to in his mind. The jazz torchbearer's double album Heaven and Earth, out today, represents that inward heaven versus his ...

Anyone buying Kamasi Washington‘s latest album, Heaven and Earth, expecting four LPs’ worth of shimmering spiritual jazz was in for a surprise: There was actually a fifth. Sealed inside a perforated ...