Kamasi Washington Heaven & Earth

Kamasi Washington Heaven & EarthKamasi Washington arrived on the international jazz scene from Los Angeles with a bang after the release of 2015's three disc, three hour The Epic. While he'd been around for a decade, playing with Snoop Dogg, Kendrick Lamar whose To Pimp a Butterfly he arranged and played on the mammoth project turned him into jazz's perceived savior almost overnight. But he understood his own mission remarkably well and has remained undaunted by the hype. His

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he's a virtuoso on the keys and a true innovator in sound production as one of the original creators of the Broken Beat sound

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