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‘Choosing happy is a hell of a process’: Thundercat on funk, lost friends and being fired by Snoop Dogg (possibly)

The genre-hopping bass virtuoso has backed Ariana Grande and Herbie Hancock, appeared in Star Wars and become a dedicated boxer. Ahead of his fifth album, Stephen Bruner explains his polymath mindset

The Guardian - UK

Add to playlist: the dark fog of Los Angeles saxophonist Aaron Shaw and the week’s best new tracks

The woodwind player who taught André 3000 music theory releases his searching debut album next month

The Guardian - UK

Kamasi Washington review – hip-hop and P-funk inform an outrageously joyful set

In a dazzling performance, the jazz saxophonist draws out tracks from his latest album into giddy extemporisations, ceding the floor to a series of awesome soloists

The Guardian - UK

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“There's only one person on Earth who could turn a highly conceptual, fiercely political, free-form jazz-rap fusion record into a global hit”: Making Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp a Butterfly

10 years on from the release of Kendrick's seminal Grammy-winner, we look back at how TPAB was made - and why it still resonates even more deeply a decade later

MusicRadar

Kendrick Lamar drops surprise album, GNX

Rapper caps off 2024 with release of 12-track album featuring guest spots from SZA and Kamasi Washington

The Guardian - US

On my radar: Daniel Handler, AKA Lemony Snicket, on his cultural highlights

The US children’s author and novelist on a sublime musical trio, how spices reinvigorated his cooking, an addictive ‘mid-19th century’ BBC panel show and being floored by a new jazz track

The Guardian - UK

Kamasi Washington: Fearless Movement review – the sax star dials up the tempos

Input from George Clinton, André 3000 and Washington’s toddler daughter feature on his virtuosic, richly varied latest

The Guardian - UK

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Dinner Party: Enigmatic Society review – slinky, synthy R&B

The jazz supergroup without the ego bring an LA breeziness to an album shimmering with 80s synths and G-funk

The Guardian - UK

Herbie Hancock and Kamasi Washington curate annual Hollywood Bowl Jazz Festival

ANAHEIM, Calif. — Kamasi Washington, Leon Bridges, Digable Planets and Samara Joy are among the artists slated to play the Hollywood Bowl Jazz Festival in June, the LA Phil announced on Thursday.

The Orange County Register

Pharoah Sanders remembered by Kamasi Washington

The musician salutes the long career of the fellow saxophonist, the master of spiritual, ‘cosmic’ jazz who was ‘like a third grandfather’ to him

The Guardian - UK

Sacred Rose: Chicago’s newest music festival is a ‘choose your own’ affair

Not since the one-year Dave Matthews Band Caravan in 2011 has there been a jam band event of this scale in the area, with dedicated stages for fans of Americana, psych rock and other experimental styles.

Chicago Sun-Times

Kamasi Washington at the Troxy review: Relaxed and charismatic

Technical issues aside, the performer was unshowy and generous

Evening Standard

South Facing festival: Tickets, line-ups and more as concert series returns to Crystal Palace Bowl

The south London concert series is back

Evening Standard

Herbie Hancock: ‘Miles Davis told me: I don’t pay you to get applause’

At 82, the jazz legend will this weekend be one of the oldest performers ever to grace Glastonbury’s Pyramid stage. He recalls his career highs, from making his hip-hop classic Rockit to working with Thundercat

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Robert Glasper talks 'Black Radio III,' reclaiming jazz

Robert Glasper’s magic-infused fingers have touched everything from jazz to hip-hop to R&B, and now he’s included TV series music on his resume by co-scoring the new shows “Bel-Air” and “Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty.”

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