Kamasi Washington
 

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Just released (or leaked?) his album - The Epic.

Here's an extract from the official album page http://www.brainfeedersite.com/2015/...epic-05-05-15/ :

Oh, and it's pretty fantastic.

I hope it lives up to all that build up. That 14 minute teaser is pretty good.

I can affirm that The Epic is tits.

Piquing the very fabric of my interests.

Holy ****, this sounds delicious. On this like it's the last drop of smack.

This quite clearly is some of the best Jazz I've heard in years. 3 hours though is a lot of time to be listening to it.

As a whole it doesn't really blow me away. Listening to one of the parts (especially the middle) is great though.

I listened to the first hour and I'm not really into it - like, it's fine, but it's a little too smooth at times and there's no reason not to just listen to Pharoah Sanders or either Coltrane instead. It's too bad, because it's very much my thing and if it were done better/more originally I could see myself loving it.

^That's a shame, the second hour is the best. It's not the most inventive jazz out there, but it's still really solid.

I'll give the rest of it a listen at some point. I'll try it on headphones, maybe that'll help.