Manitoba Music
TD Winnipeg International Jazz Festival
- Date
- Tuesday, Jun 21, 2016 at 7:30pm
- Performers
- Kamasi Washington
Keith Price - Location
- Burton Cummings Theatre
- Address
- 364 Smith St., Winnipeg, MB, Canada
- Promoters
- TD Winnipeg International Jazz Festival (Jazz Winnipeg Inc.)
- Advance Cost
- $35.00
About
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The biggest new name in jazz makes one of his very few Canadian jazz festival stops at the 2016 TD Winnipeg International Jazz Festival. Kamasi Washington’s monstrous three-disc release, aptly entitled, The Epic, topped numerous best of 2015 lists including Rolling Stone, iTunes, LA Times, The Guardian, and many more.
The Epic is a 172-minute, triple-disc masterpiece, featuring Kamasi’s ten-piece band “The Next Step” along with a full string orchestra and full choir. The Epic debuted #1 on several iTunes Jazz charts, including the US, Canada, Australia, Russia and UK on the trend-setting record label Brainfeeder. Kamasi also worked on Kendrick Lamar’s Grammy-winning 2015 album To Pimp A Butterfly.
Over the years, Kamasi has performed and recorded with many of his musical heroes from various genres, including Gerald Wilson, McCoy Tyner, Freddie Hubbard, Kenny Burrell, George Duke, Lauryn Hill, Jeffrey Osborne, Mos Def, Quincy Jones, Stanley Clark, Harvey Mason and Chaka Khan. Kamasi’s own band “The Next Step” is a modern spin on a big band, which includes two drummers, two upright bass players, keyboard players, three horns players, a pianist, and a vocalist. In addition, Kamasi is part of a west coast musical collective called the “West Coast Get Down.” The exact configuration of the group coming to Winnipeg has yet to be confirmed.
