Thirty-six-year-old Los Angelino saxophonist Kamasi Washington made a name for himself by playing on Kendrick Lamar's landmark 2015 hip-hop album To Pimp a Butterfly, before releasing a sprawling, critically acclaimed triple album called The Epic that same year. The New York Times describes him as one of today's few jazz musicians to play concert halls, rather than smaller clubs, before adding that attendees at his gigs "do something that people at jazz concerts seldom do anymore: They dance."

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