Kamasi Washington

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.

Washington's most collaborative and groove-driven album dissolves genre walls entirely, channeling George Clinton, go-go, and hip-hop through a spiritual jazz lens to argue that jazz lives by moving forward.