Kamasi Washington

Kamasi Washington's music is unclassified, on the one hand plays unbound and brisk improvisation with Fun's "Grad", for which they would not be ashamed of Sly and the Family or Miles Davis. The architect, who, on his conceptual mostly albums of The Epic (2015) and Heaven and Earth (2018), took advantage of the massive orchestral sound as well as commemorating psychedelic music. Before he "kicked the door" to the first league of this genre, he played with musicians more from hip hop and electronics - he has been friends with Thundercat, with whom he has been working in parallel since then, he has repeatedly recorded for Rapper Snoop Dogga or Flying Lotus producer and the first really "big album". Kendricka Lamara to PIMP and Butterfly (2015). At the edge of jazz and other black music sub -genre is the "Supergroup" Dinner Party, founded in 2020 with keyboardist Robert Glasper, multi -instrumentalist Terrace Martin and DJ and producer 9th Wonder. Movement, shows, among other things, the famous Rapper André 3000 or Fun Godfather, eighty -eight -year -old George Clinton. Before the release, Washington released the world that it would be a dance album, which some of the listeners were startled. "When I say dance, I don't mean it literally. In his own words, the pandemic and the protagonist realized his own mortality, and on the other hand, the joyful fact that he became the father of his daughter at the same time. Already at the age of two, she played her favorite masters, John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman and Erik Dolphy. {"I wanted to show her the best music," he says. And he adds that he and his daughter sat down to the piano and on the basis of a motif that she was constantly curbing around, for the album the song Asha The First.