Kamasi Washington

No artist in the 21st century has brought jazz to such a young and diverse audience as Kamasi Washington. The Los Angeles tenor saxophonist and composer bridges the music's revered traditions and its multi-limbed experiments in other genres. He’s as comfortable headlining storied concert halls as he is playing mammoth rock festivals or DIY performance spaces. It’s no wonder that in 2016, the New York Times Magazine called him “the most-talked-about jazz musician since Wynton Marsalis arrived on the New York scene three decades ago.”