Kamasi Washington
2015-present
Spiritual Jazz Renaissance
2015-2018
Grand-scale spiritual jazz that positioned Washington as the genre's most visible ambassador, blending orchestral ambition with cosmic consciousness and street-level accessibility.
A nearly three-hour spiritual jazz odyssey that channels Coltrane's cosmic ambition through a 21st-century LA ensemble, reclaiming maximalist acoustic jazz as a living, breathing cultural force.
A concise suite commissioned for the Whitney Biennial that distills counterpoint into a metaphor for social harmony, proving Washington's compositional ambition can be as powerful in thirty minutes as in three hours.
A double album split between earthly funk grooves and cosmic spiritual jazz, refining The Epic's maximalism into a more structured duality that bridges accessible rhythm and transcendent improvisation.
Cosmic Expansion
2024
A looser, more collaborative phase embracing funk, hip-hop, and global rhythms while maintaining the spiritual core.