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Instruments
  
Saxophone

Labels
  
Brainfeeder


Associated acts
  
Kendrick Lamar

Name
  
Kamasi Washington

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Genres
  
Jazz West Coast jazz bebop

Role
  
Saxophonist · kamasiwashington.com

Profiles

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Kamasi Washington (born February 18, 1981) is an American jazz saxophonist, composer, producer, and bandleader. Washington is known mainly for playing tenor saxophone.

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Background

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Washington was born in Los Angeles, California, to musical parents and educators, and was raised in Inglewood, California. He is a graduate of the Academy of Music of Alexander Hamilton High School in Beverlywood, Los Angeles. Washington next enrolled in UCLA's Department of Ethnomusicology, where he began playing with faculty members such as Kenny Burrell, Billy Higgins and band leader/trumpeter Gerald Wilson. Washington features in the album Young Jazz Giants in 2004. He has played along with a diverse group of musicians including Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Horace Tapscott, Gerald Wilson, Lauryn Hill, Nas, Snoop Dogg, George Duke, Chaka Khan, Flying Lotus, Thundercat, Mike Muir, Francisco Aguabella, the Pan Afrikaan People's Orchestra and Raphael Saadiq. Washington ventured into big band music when he joined the Gerald Wilson Orchestra for their 2006 album In My Time. Washington played saxophone on Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp a Butterfly. His debut solo recording, The Epic, was released in May 2015 to critical acclaim.

Awards

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  • Winner, 1999 John Coltrane Music Competition
  • Music festivals and benefits

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  • Central Avenue Jazz Festival
  • Leimert Park African Art and Music Festival, Leimert Park, Los Angeles (2011, 2013)
  • KKJZ First Annual Summer Benefit Concert, June 20, 2013, Walt Disney Concert Hall, with drummer Harvey Mason's Chameleon group.
  • Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival April 17 and April 24, 2016
  • Superjam at Bonnaroo, June 10, 2016.
  • Winnipeg International Jazz Festival, June 21, 2016, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
  • Electric Forest Festival, June 23–26, 2016.
  • Camp Flog Gnaw, Exposition Park, Los Angeles November 12–13, 2016.
  • JamCruise 15, Miami, Jamaica, Grand Cayman, January 20–25, 2017
  • As leader

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  • Live at 5th Street Dick's, (self-released, 2005)
  • The Proclamation, (self-released, 2007)
  • Light of the World, (self-released, 2008)
  • The Epic, (Brainfeeder, 2015)
  • Harmony of Difference, (Young Turks, 2017)
  • As sideman

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  • Gold by Ryan Adams (Lost Highway Records, 2001)
  • Blackberry Belle by The Twilight Singers (One Little Indian, 2003)
  • Young Jazz Giants – with Cameron Graves, Stephen Bruner, Ronald Bruner (Birdman, 2004)
  • Perseverance by Phil Ranelin (Wide Hive, 2011)
  • Chameleon by Harvey Mason – on "Black Frost" (Concord, 2014)
  • Up by Stanley Clarke – on "I Have Something To Tell You Tonight" (Mack Avenue, 2014)
  • You're Dead! by Flying Lotus (Warp, 2014)
  • To Pimp a Butterfly by Kendrick Lamar – arranger on "Mortal Man" (Aftermath/Interscope, 2015)
  • The Beyond / Where the Giants Roam by Thundercat (Brainfeeder, 2015)
  • Run the Jewels 3 by Run the Jewels – on "Thursday in the Danger Room" (Mass Appeal/RED, 2016)
  • Damn by Kendrick Lamar – strings on "Lust" (Top Dawg/Aftermath/Interscope, 2017)
  • With Throttle Elevator Music

  • Throttle Elevator Music (Wide Hive, 2012)
  • Area J (Wide Hive, 2014)
  • Jagged Rocks (Wide Hive, 2015)
  • Throttle Elevator Music IV (Wide Hive, 2016)
  • With the Gerald Wilson Orchestra

  • In My Time (Mack Avenue, 2005)
  • Monterey Moods (Mack Avenue, 2007)
  • Detroit (Mack Avenue, 2009)
  • Legacy (Mack Avenue, 2011)
  • References

    Kamasi Washington Wikipedia