NPR Presents - Kamasi Washington's 'The Epic' in Concert
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- Опубліковано 14 сер 2016
- Saxophonist and composer Kamasi Washington, 35, has been working on releasing his now three-CD, nearly three-hour, choir-and-strings-assisted album The Epic for the better part of five years now. Even longer, if you consider how long his 10-piece working band has known each other: Most of its members, known collectively as The Next Step or The West Coast Get Down, have known each other since at least high school decades ago in South Central Los Angeles, and in some instances well before that. Even as their diverse careers have made it difficult to focus exclusively on this band - Washington is, for instance, the saxophone player heard on the new Flying Lotus and Kendrick Lamar albums - they've all continually committed to experimenting with a brand of jazz that resonates with their own generation's lived experience.
Jazz Night In America features Kamasi Washington and the music of The Epic at its release party, and in its full glory. From the Regent Theater in Downtown L.A., Washington presents his new album with his working band, a choir, a string section and plenty of special guests.
SETLIST
5:45 - "Askim"
27:25 - "Change of the Guard"
47:00 - "Leroy and Lanisha"
1:02:01 - "Henrietta Our Hero"
1:15:10 - "Re Run"
1:44:00 - "The Message"
MUSICIANS
Kamasi Washington, Tony Austin, Ronald Bruner, Stephen Bruner, Brandon Coleman, Cameron Graves, Miles Mosley, Ryan Porter, Patrice Quinn, Battlecat, Munyungo Jackson, The Gaslamp Killer, Terrace Martin, Leon Mobley, Ras G, Dwight Trible, Rickey Washington, Dontae Winslow, Miguel Atwood:Ferguson, Paul Cartwright, Yvette Devereauz, Atryom Manukyan, Ginger Murphy, Tylana Renga, Molly Rogers, Jim Simone, Andrea Witt, Nia Andrews, Trenyce Cobbins, Thalma de Freitas, Taylor Graves, Charles Jones, Dawn Norsleet, Steven Wayne, Mashica Winslow
CREDITS
Producers: Alex Ariff, Patrick Jarenwattananon, Nick Michael, Suraya Mohamed, Simon Rentner, Katie Simon / Editors: Nick Michael, Morgan McCloy / Videographers: Morgan McCloy, Nick Michael, Benjamin B. Morris, Doriane Raiman / Event Producer and Promoter: Andrew Lojero, ArtDontSleep / Assistant Producer: Colin Marshall / Asst. Videographer: Aaron Ashby / Lighting Director: Jerome Cushing / Audio Mixing and Mastering: Daddy Kev, Cosmic Zoo / House Audio Engineers: Nic Monaco, Kyle Berzle / Additional Audio: Alex Ariff / Supervising Sound Editor: Suraya Mohamed / Special Thanks: The Regent Theater, Atom Factory, Banch Abegaze, Many Giangardella, Mitchell Frank, Liz Garo, Jasper Kuo / Executive Producer: Anya Grundmann
I'd like to think Kamasi is some kind of musical wizard from another dimension limiting and challenging himself and his friends in human form trying out this wiggly air on planet earth.
You can tell the string players are having a ball. This stuff is a huge fucking treat for them, after decades of learning the strict, classical stuff. This is when they cut loose and go supernova. I love it.
@@esltogo6898 I take your point but it's the cutting loose that I wanna emphasise. I mean these string parts also written so they're actually playing part of an arrangement but it's that letting go, that rocking out that is amazing. I suppose you can also go crazy with Stravinsky's Firebird Suite or whatever but that's another story.
Been to so many orchestral performances and never seen them enjoy themselves that much.
That's why I enjoy Jazz, my Brother, I enjoy more than anything the friendship that comes out as they are in the Jam Session, I see a lot of Power in that. Friends coming together to let the music instruments speak! That's why I love it, the artist makes the musical instruments SING! AMEN! More than anything I enjoy the CHEMISTRY in the Team.
My favorite part is how juiced everybody was when thundercat did his solo
If there's no time stamp... did it really happen?
@@georgepanagos3760 Oh, you mean Battlecat solo? 1:04:00
@@MsJv99 you mean the guy playing Sax @ 28:- to 40: -ish w hen it switchs to horn.. ??? ... because that's when it 'actually gets juicy' as the othe guy was saying (and i agree) but i am a musician and ... (before a lil over done) but then.. it started 'peaking' and really (like everying just -so tight).. ( I was gunna say - the 'Drummer was so on it up to then. ;z))) (cuz one thing i play is drum) ( and you know everyone was even more on it.. because ( then drumer can solo and lol... go off... or 'let it'... ;z)
There's more than one
Was great but the rhythm section afterward got more totally hypnotic
This is a Spiritual experience 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
I am on an emotional roller coaster of joy. Kamasi and everyone on that stage are Magical Beings bestowed upon us to Uplift us and encourage us to Remember who we are. Spiritual Beings Having A Human Experience.
The audience is reciprocating the energy. This is exactly what is needed in the world right now.
5:45 Askim
24:13 (Kamasi's dream)
27:39 Change of the Guard 45:18
47:07 Leroy and Lenisha
59:03 (Rickey Washington)
1:02:05 Henrietta Our Hero 1:13:32
1:15:12 Re Run
1:32:58 Malcolm's Theme 1:42:32
1:42:46 (Kamasi and Ronald)
1:43:52 The Message 2:01:28
This is like watch brother Sun Ra in his youth. Really loving this mans work!
5 years later.. still an unbelievable live experience. I was at this show - in fact I was in the front row for the entire 4 hours. This will be hands down one of the best shows I’ve ever experienced in my life without question. Period. I’m glad NPR documented some of these moments, truly a classic set from start to finish.
was that ikey Owens???
I just came back from his live show in Argentina, and watching this video again, i can't believe 90% of people here are almost still...over here we couldn't stop jumping and screaming, for me, defining it as a spiritual experience isn't enough
A1lh
The first song on this, to me at least, has that same sort of feel as Coltrane's "Love Supreme" - certainly the feeling when hearing it the first time, or indeed for the 100th time. Genius.
The album version gives me more of a Lonnie's Lament (Crescent) feel : a perfect melody at the begining and end with extended solos in between.
This is part of Jazz history. So much soul...
Once this whole Covid mess is over with, Im going to see him in concert when he comes to Seattle. I'm going to put this out there.
I’m hoping to go see him at the cheltenham jazz festival if he performs there again this year.
I cried so many times watching the performances. Just... the greatness of it all overwhelms me. Fucking insane.
Love seeing the conductor is the same guy in the wolf shirt who played violin alongside Thundercat's tiny desk. He was definitely someone I was rooting for
haha i knew i wasnt the only one who noticed
I feel like he was trolling us now lol.
Never knew that Thundercat and Kamasi were childhood friends and he's in the band along with his brother
There's so much talent in just this band alone😊
That solo Thundercat did starting at 10:11 let me know how serious these guy were! Beastly!!!
Absolutely mind-blowing!!!🤯
Kasami Washington, you wanted your music to impact people? Consider it done, and then some.💯Hands down.
Watching this concert brought happy tears to my eyes!!!🥹 I loved that there were seemingly as many musicians on stage as there were attendees in the audience.🥰
I sent a link to my son, who loves music - jazz included.
What an awesome gift to us all!!💯💖🎶🎷🎸🎺🎹🎻🥁🪈🪇🎛️🎶💖
Thank you, Kamasi Washington, as well as all of your musicians!!!
You all are so incredibly awesome!!!
🥰🥹🦸🏽♀️🎷💪🏾🧠💖💯
💖💃🏻💖🙏🏽🕊️💖💯♾️
P.S. You all are truly blessed, having known one another since childhood!! It's hard enough to find one dear friend in a lifetime, let alone a handful or more.
I'd love to see a documentary about that!! God bless you all, and Grandma, too!!!💯✌🏽💖🙏🏽🕊️💖💯♾️
My man on the Trumpet is not only a phenomenal musician, he’s clearly also the hype man - awesome!
God is real and listens to Kamasi Washington....
I just started playing tenor saxophone. Kamasi Washington is the kind of musician I wish to emulate.
Ryan Williams Work with your heart brother! That man's passion is what allows him to create such amazing stuff. Emulate that love for it bro. Godspeed.
Hope you are still playing saxophone Man! 👌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼
I’m on tenor too man been playing for ten years but I’m young if you have any questions feel free to ask!!
3 years later, how you doin?
As Kamasi puts it "just keep playing your instrument"
picking up right where sun ra left of. I feel like we made it passed the asteroid belt now
The energy of the musicians, from the celloists, the violists, to the band is tremendous. I could watch and listen to this all day all night!
one of the best concert in youtube (in my opinion). so spiritual and EPIC
Even if mediated by the screen this simply remains one of the most beautiful musical experiences of my life
pay very close attention to this dude-- he is quite possibly the most important musician in the last fifty years.
Mr. Kamasi Washington, THIS performance is now my weekly loop experience. Please tour overseas so I can experience your genius in person!
Anyone here after the Homeland finale. Great music for a great ending to a series.
Terence on them Doritos, dude got mad munchies. On a real note, the Masters should be pleased, Jazz is in a very good place right now. Kamasi and these cats plus Glasper and "Daddy" Dave and Esperanza and Gretchen and Roy's Rh Factor and many more make the genre more flexible and accommodating than ever. Damn right its EPIC! I wonder if some of the orchestra are the same folk that rocked with Atwood-Ferguson on that ode to Dilla trip?
@@dlr7383 Ezra collective is great, KOKOROKO too, Alfa mist, Oscar Jerome
@@georgevanderbyl7519 Oh yes, that England crowd has some serious jazz saviors like Yussef Dayes.
i cry at the fist minute of the show
THUNDERCAAAAATTTT!!!! DOPE!!!!!!! PIKACHU!!!!!
From South Africa! Love you Kamasi and your band, you are awesome! Ke a leboga!
Thundercat solo 1:04:00
Kamasi's dad just watching him in awe!
Beautiful. Like old loves: Sun Ra, the Coltranes , Carla Bley, Herbie Hancock, Mingus, but a fresh and emerging sound.
I watch this periodically to immerse myself in the joy of excellence and friendship and beauty. It lives up to the album's name.
besides the amazing music, i love how you can see EVERYONE having the best time haha
This is genuinely one of the most impressive things I've ever heard. Henrietta is absolutely gorgeous, chills.
god damn what did I just stumble across im literally having a brain melt mode right now whatis this amazing shit, Seeing thundercat just chilling there is wild as fuck
These kids get it!
Brandon Coleman on keys is like a man who got struck by a bolt of lightning but learned how to harness the power and channel it through his music... absolutely ⚡ELECTRIFYING⚡ 54:54
The two drummers kept it so tight you can't even tell!
greatest show ive ever watched in youtube!
카마시 최고!!
Gorgeous! Why does this NOT have more views?! All of that talent on one stage...simply amazing.
I have been a free jazz lover for years- because I work I don't explore any more- and its so easy (my bad) ! I agree with you...we need to get off our butts and support these musicians everywhere (most of the public will not though).
@@johnwright3815 ?? This isn't free jazz
Brandon Coleman is AMAZING!!!
Love this. Jazz for the love and excitement of it, not for the chops.
Singing The Long Swan Song both lol
Super music! I hear Coltrane, Earth Wind and Fire and Herbie Hancock . At the same time they have their own distinctive sound. Bravo
Amazing!!!
Amazing music. Thank you.
Beautiful
em se tratando de música não aceitarei nada menos do que isto! Maravilhoso! Espetacular! Grandioso ! Tremendo! Notório! Realmente épico e tudo mais!
what a session ...brilliant .
One of the best videos on the internet I’m so glad this was documented
Fantastic!
AMAZING!!! LOVED EVERY SECOND OF IT!!!
Amazing song, everithing, all days!
that first violin was stunning
you ain't talking about no violin, man
thIS ALBUM IS HEAVENLY!
Amazing thank you
Thank you! Wonderful experience
More people need to enjoy this, killer concert.
this is beautiful
Awesome!
Here I am watching this video for the umpteenth time. I must say Re Run still holds a place in my heart! The grooves on that song are insane! My fav is Brandon's solo and then Kamasi comes in with his saxaphone hip hop cypher solo. Everyone was clicking on this joint!!
I truly and thoroughly enjoyed this concert - this is a not only a musical journey, but a total immersive musical experience! With all of its moving parts changing like the light bouncing off of a prism and displaying a new Picasso at every turn! Well done, All :)
Good god this is fabulous!
Sensorial !
Спасибо тебе, Камаси! меня твое творчество очень вдохновляет.
great energy ... congratulations...uauuuuuuu...yesssssss
Those Heavenly voices and orchestra..is awesome ass combination...fine musicianship....beautiful and talented. Wish they had of done Clare de lune....Man the horns on that piece is sheer artistry.
Magnificent!!!
Thank you Kamasi Washington!
Epic is right! I so need to be in a room like this in real life. Starving!
Long live The KING !
Oh? I would have loved to have been at this performance. I am at the edge of my chair listening to all of these muses of the muses. 🌸🎶
This was a beautiful performance Orchestra musicians everybody was on point
Kamasi !!!!!!! Legendary !! Thundercat is the tastiest bass player, every person on this is way top "A" Game !!! What a pool of phenomenal talent !!!! Love this !!!!
grabbing my bass and jamming to this
You are big, keep it up and never give up.
You have a fan in Argentina :)
I accidentally listened to a portion of this video at 1.25x and it still sounded amazing.
Henrietta. Wow. Thank you.
Brandon Coleman is a goodamn freek! Whole band is amazing. Wow! What an insanely great performance holy crap. So happy to come across this, thanks!
I can appreciate the flow of the playing and the energy of the people playing it! Getting past a lot of the preconceptions of what music should sound or be played like, is a huge obstacle for any musician/artist to overcome. The dynamics are set in a sort of emotional tone in the mids of many "purists" who seem to have forgotten that musical artforms have evolved and progressed from one form into another for centuries.
If we stop this progress, we will stand static and become stagnant.
Thank you, to this group of progressive thinking musicians who know that they are not willing to simply conform and erode!
Thank you so much for celebrating your life through Kamasi Washington's Epic ensemble. It is with me forever. All love, health to you.
wow..Dope!
Thundercat
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh yes!
This entire Epic is genius. Change of the Guard! A MASTERPIECE!!!
Bro got into one of those Kobe Bryant zones!
J
Beautiful arrangement for sure
Lloré
Beatifull concert!!! 😀. Great applouse!!! 👏. Fun Jazzu from Poland!!! 🇵🇱 🎧 🎹 🎷 🎸 🎺 🎻 🥁 🎤 🔈 🔉 🔊 🎼 🎵 🎶 👍 👌 ✌️ 🖐️ 👆 💓 🙌 👐 👐 👐 🙌 💓
IMPRESIONANTE !!!
I love that Thundercat’s bass is slightly out of tune during his solo. Whether intentional or not, it sounds pretty cool
I hear lots of my favourite sax players in Kamasis playing ....................A tone very similar to that displayed by Pharoah Sanders on Tauhid.....Wonderful stuff Kamasi
iBravo, kamasi!
WHAT IS HAPPENING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THIS IS MIND-BENDING
father, son, AND the holy ghost! this is HUGE.
im bent that i havent heard it sooner
Danke
F'ing magic, straight up
oh yes!
This must have been an inspiration for Disney's "Soul" movie.
Nice to see classically trained musicien enjoying so much :)
This is 🎶
Que galera maravilhosa, virei fã!!
Parabéns
nós dois.
Nível absurdo
Great Jazzz...only by Masters !...
HAHAHAHAHA
Pretty epic
I just listened to Askim on record and this is like a thousand times better omg why do concerts sometimes do this...T.T That performance was amazing.
From Paimpol, "le journal d'un agrologue" is listening to Sir Kamasy Washington,
The radio Arverne, in the middle of the french Volcanos gave birth of the first agronomy dissident program "journal d'un agrologue" on internet and UA-cam, let listen you to international rebirth of the fields and peasants all over the World, as Kamasy is reburthing the Sun Ra way if life.
Long life to your art bro