Kamasi Washington, figurehead of the new jazz revival

The LA sax player, whose album The Epic and work with Kendrick Lamar have made him the poster boy of the jazz revival, on why his cosmic music has made such a splash“Shall we eat or shall we play?” asks Kamasi Washington, clutching his carved wooden cane in one bejewelled hand, his brushed gold saxophone in the other. He and his band are sitting cramped around one of the tiny tables of Le Baiser Salé, a jazz club in Paris’s Marais district, where three grey-haired men in sm...

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