Multi-instrumentalist, composer and bandleader
Kamasi Washington took the music world by storm in 2015 with his three-hour-long debut album
The Epic. It put him right at the vanguard of a new wave of highly successful jazz musicians. Born and raised in Los Angeles, the saxophonist is part of jazz collective West Coast Get Down and has collaborated with varied artists, including Kendrick Lamar, Herbie Hancock, Chaka Khan and Snoop Dogg, to name just a few. Washington scored the Michelle Obama documentary
Becoming, earning Emmy and Grammy nominations for his work, and co-founded the supergroup Dinner Party with Terrace Martin, Robert Glasper and 9
th Wonder in 2020. His latest album
Fearless Movement was released earlier this year.