Kamasi Washington

Kamasi Washington is, to my ears, one of the people who cracked modern jazz open for a new generation. As a founding member of the West Coast Get Down collective out of Los Angeles, he made the genre feel expansive and urgent rather than museum-bound. His sound has a cinematic, almost cosmic scale that pulls in listeners raised on hip-hop and classical alike. What I admire most is his refusal to compromise that vision, building sprawling, ambitious records on his own terms. He is an artist I will keep following closely, because he treats the saxophone like a landscape.

Name (English)

Kamasi Washington

Name (Japanese)

カマシ・ワシントン

Reading

かまし・わしんとん

Born

January 1, 1981 (age 45)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Rooster

Origin

Los Angeles, California, United States

Occupation

jazz musician / saxophonist / record producer / composer / musician

Awards & achievements

• Libera Award for Record of the Year

• Official sitehttps://www.kamasiwashington.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/kamasiwashington/
• Xhttps://x.com/KamasiW
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamasi%20Washington
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AB%E3%83%9E%E3%82%B7%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AF%E3%82%B7%E3%83%B3%E3%83%88%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16221677

Tags

• California
• jazz musician
• saxophonist
• record producer

Last updated

2026-06-21

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