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The latest in a long line of hoped-for jazz saviors. He'll probably move to France, perhaps live next door to David Murray, an earlier tenor who (like his contemporary, Bennie Wallace) was expected to save jazz, and whom Washington reminds me of.Esquire addresses the Kamasi phenomenon.
Hell, they ain't even old-timey ! - Homer Stokes
Not sure if this is the place or if a new thread would be better, but digging into Washinton's output has lead me to Flying Lotus. Very trippy mix of beats, jazz, electronica and hip hop.
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I want to dynamite your mind with love tonight.
Any returns on his new album Heaven and Earth.
it's again a long bugger (double CD and triple vinyl, I think).
My first reaction since buying it on Sunday is that I'm slightly disappointed with it.
There is the usual brilliance of The Epic and the Harmony EP, but there are some tracks that really don't hit the spot at all: too much singing (and definitely not my type of singing/vocals in a few tracks) and then some are to spacey/vacuous.
This is really a first impression, and it's likely to evolve.
my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicts to complete nutcases.
Have you found the hidden extra record yet?
If you're actually reading this then chances are you already have my last album but if NOT and you're curious:
https://battema.bandcamp.com/
Also, Ephemeral Sun: it's a thing and we like making things that might be your thing: https://ephemeralsun.bandcamp.com
If you're actually reading this then chances are you already have my last album but if NOT and you're curious:
https://battema.bandcamp.com/
Also, Ephemeral Sun: it's a thing and we like making things that might be your thing: https://ephemeralsun.bandcamp.com
Not immediately, but I was wondering why the bloody thing was so thick in cardboard, and why it was so badly glued on the top side. I finally opened it up after this morning and found it. Tricky to get it out without damaging the package.
But I haven't listened to it yet.
my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicts to complete nutcases.
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Sorry for resurrecting such an old thread, but seeing as there is no other ongoing Kamasi Washington thread...
I think that Heaven and Earth is wonderful, to my ears at least. It improves upon The Epic in just about every way, and also sounds more forward-moving than its predecessor. I love the spaciness of disc 2, and the grooviness of disc 1. Enjoyed it so much I picked up the 5-LP vinyl edition from my local record shop.
My favorites are probably "Connections" and "Vi Lua Vi Sol". What are your favorites guys, if any?
To me, H&E is a bit like more of the same of Epic (or the so-called EP Harmony)
So you might be right that H&E is technically better, but I surely haven't spined it anywhere close to Epic, precisely because of that "already heard elsewhere" reason.
Are you aware of the hidden third disc on the CD release? (it's hidden inside the back cardboard spine of the package.)
my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicts to complete nutcases.
I agree. After The Epic came out, he was talking about doing something that sounded like it might have been a big band project, and would have sounded considerably different. But he ended up doing something pretty similar, and the freshness of The Epic - one of its strong points, its unusual combination of straight-ahead jazz in the mainstream tradition, funky fusion, and a soundtrack orchestration that gave a What's Goin' On air of importance to the whole work - was, in my opinion, diluted on H&E.
Oh well. I wouldn't want him to change drastically; I already liked his style after hearing The Epic. To my ears, H&E feels like a further refinement, with more memorable melodies and themes. Or to put it more simply: it's just good music, period. That's really all I ask for.
H&E disc 2 is my favorite. Love the melodic spacyness on that one. Its the disc I reach for the most.
Despite the scope/ambition of The Epic Washington remains a "just OK" player imo. YMMV.....
Hell, they ain't even old-timey ! - Homer Stokes
I think his greatest ability may be as a producer/conceptualist, a sort of modern-day Creed Taylor. His playing is solid and soulful, but not revolutionary; that goes for his band, too; and the same may be said for his composing. But his real contribution is in the sound of his music, rather than in its specific content: Like Wynton, he reveres the music's history, but unlike Wynton, does not reject its present and recent past; he incorporates Seventies funk/fusion, orchestral R&B, and an indirect hip-hop flavor into the jazz tradition, and does so pretty much seamlessly. He's about adapting and including - and in doing that, he keeps faith with the spirit of the jazz tradition - whereas Wynton was all about excluding music he considered unworthy, and thus was only faithful to the letter of it.
Looks like I will be seeing Washington next year in Mexico.
https://wilcoskybluesky.com/
Should be a good time.
I want to dynamite your mind with love tonight.
Seen him already six times, so I can skip him once in a while...
I missed him at the Liège festival last w-e, and I think I will pass when he will be at Couleur Café in Brussels in two weeks...
One of my fave memories is seeing him play with Shabaka Hutchings (he was with The Ancestors) for two numbers, though I'm not sure the two really hit it off on that occasion (Ghent Jazz Fest in 2016)
my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicts to complete nutcases.
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