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Kamasi Washington

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At the age of 13 Kamasi Washington decided to begin a life long quest of the many wonders to be found in music. He made this decision one night when after a rehearsal at his home his father left his soprano saxophone lying on the piano and left Kamasi with an uncontrollable curiosity of all the beauty he’d just heard come from it. So he took father’s horn, and even though he didn’t know anything about the saxophone, in fact he’d never even touched a saxophone, and played Wayne Shorter’s “Sleeping Dancer Sleep On”, his favorite song at the time. Kamasi was shocked he had been playing drums, piano, and clarinet for years but he’d never played the saxophone. Yet he was somehow able to play a song from his heart and in that received an early glimpse of the euphoria that music can bring. And at that moment he knew that music was his life’s quest and the saxophone was his voice.

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Article: In Pictures

Kamasi Washington at The Royal Baths Park

Read "Kamasi Washington at The Royal Baths Park" reviewed by Marek J. Śmietański


Article: Live Review

Umbria Jazz 2025

Read "Umbria Jazz 2025" reviewed by Libero Farnè


Umbria Jazz 2025 Varie sedi Perugia 11--20 luglio 2025 Basta scorrere il cartellone di Umbria Jazz 2025--soprattutto gli appuntamenti succedutisi al teatro Morlacchi, al Teatro Pavone e alla Sala Podiani della Galleria Nazionale dell'Umbria, ma anche le serate jazzistiche all'Arena Santa Giuliana--per rendersi conto di quanto quest'anno la programmazione fosse nutrita ...

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Article: Jazz In South Asia

India After Dark: The New Geography of Jazz

Read "India After Dark: The New Geography of Jazz" reviewed by Karan Khosla


When the large festival stages are packed away, the music finds a more permanent home. All across India, jazz now thrives in a growing network of clubs and bars, the nightly engine rooms that sustain the scene. The new geography of Indian jazz is shaped by these essential venues--relaxed neighborhood joints that serve as the scene's ...

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Article: Jazz In South Asia

The Big Stage: How Festivals Are Reviving Jazz All Around India

Read "The Big Stage: How Festivals Are Reviving Jazz All Around India" reviewed by Karan Khosla


The live music scene in India is flourishing, and jazz is riding the tide. A recent Ernst & Young study estimates that the live music sector in India reached a value of around USD 1.4 billion in 2024 and is predicted to increase 20% yearly. With Gen Z and millennials making approximately 90% of all live ...

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Article: Interview

Jack Chambers: Rethinking Duke Ellington

Read "Jack Chambers: Rethinking Duke Ellington" reviewed by Jack Kenny


Jack Chambers is professor at the University of Toronto and teacher of music and language. His jazz writings include the prize winning biography Milestones: The Music and Times of Miles Davis (Da Capo Press, 1998) and Bouncin' with Bartok: The Incomplete Works of Richard Twardzik (Mercury PR, 2008). Sweet Thunder: Duke Ellington's Music In Nine Themes ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Pitch, Rhythm and Consciousness, Fini Bearman, Gerald Clayton, Shamek Farra

Read "Pitch, Rhythm and Consciousness, Fini Bearman, Gerald Clayton, Shamek Farra" reviewed by Cheryl K.


During this week's two-hour program of Jazz and improvised music, new releases from the improvisational ensemble Pitch, Rhythm and Consciousness; saxophonists David Murray and Kamasi Washington; singer-songwriter Fini Bearman; pianist Gerald Clayton; guitarist Roman Pilon; and from the first batch of resurrected releases from Strata-East, First Impressions by saxophonist Shamek Farrah. Playlist Joe Henderson ...

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Article: Big Band in the Sky

Remembering Quincy Jones: Music Is Like Water

Read "Remembering Quincy Jones: Music Is Like Water" reviewed by Ian Patterson


Quincy Jones, a giant of popular music culture in the 20th and 21st centuries, died in Los Angeles on Sunday, November 3, He was 91. Though he began his career in the '50s as a jazz trumpeter, Quincy Jones may be best remembered as a highly successful producer, arranger and conductor--hats he wore with ...

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Article: Rising Stars

Introducing Saxophonist Anirudh Chakravarthy

Read "Introducing Saxophonist Anirudh Chakravarthy" reviewed by Sanford Josephson


Tenor saxophonist Paul Gonsalves' 27-chorus solo on “Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue" with the Duke Ellington Orchestra at the 1956 Newport Jazz Festival is etched in jazz history. It energized the Newport audience and rejuvenated Ellington's band. So, the prospect of recreating that moment at Jazz at Lincoln Center's 2024 Essentially Ellington competition had ...

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Article: Album Review

Larry Nozero: Time

Read "Time" reviewed by Chris May


Here is an odd one. Originally released on the short-lived Detroit label Strata in 1975, Larry Nozero's Time defies categorization. First-generation spiritual jazz, Henry Mancini, Motown, strings (real and synthed), the Swingle Singers, Braziliana and Shaft era Isaac Hayes jostle around the mic, along with Sibylline hints of Kamasi Washington. Is it for real? Is it ...


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