The most talked-about
jazz musician in recent
memory.
— ROLLING STONE
The best way to experience
the cleanse and burn of
Kamasi Washington’s music
is live.
— THE NEW YORK TIMES
Kamasi
Washington
Arts Centre Melbourne
Hamer Hall
Tue 8 October 8pm
Approx 1 hr no interval
Tickets from $79
Eligible for
Transaction fees may apply
festival.melbourne
Arts Centre Melbourne
1300 182 183
Some musicians blaze a trail so fiercely
that others get caught up in the slipstream.
Kamasi Washington is one, and there’s
nothing left unchanged by his touch.
Washington polished his craft playing as
a session musician for artists ranging from
Herbie Hancock to Snoop Dogg, but it
was his work on Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp
a Butterfly that saw him really turn heads.
When he turned to composing, producing
and performing with his own band, that
promise erupted with a force beyond
anyone’s imagining.
His fertile, expansive style of jazz might
have roots in Coltrane, Davis and Sun Ra but
equally rips chunks of inspiration from Afro-
beat, trance, electronica and soul. Intricate
solos spill out into sweeping orchestration
of a cinematic scale, conjuring vistas of an
Afrofuturist utopia hovering on the horizon.
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