Regarded as a boundary-pushing, genre melding new jazz visionary, saxophonist
Kamasi Washington came to wider recognition when he played on Kendrick Lamar's
landmark 2015 album To Pimp a Butterfly album and conjured a mesmerizing mix of
psychedelic, free-form, Afrobeat jazz on his major label debut The Epic (2015).
Born into a musical household in Los Angeles, California, his father was a
woodwind player who recorded with Earth, Wind & Fire and The Supremes, and after
dabbling with keyboards and drums, Kamsi Washington started playing the
saxophone at the age of 13 and discovered...