Despite all the hosannas he’s garnered up to this point – being hailed as a primary architect of a West Coast jazz revival, featured in the Whitney Museum’s prestigious Biennial and playing to thousands at Coachella – Kamasi Washington, 37, doesn’t see himself as the guy. Sure, he was an integral part of Kendrick Lamar’s last two albums (arranging strings and playing tenor sax on
This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: The New Jazz Torchbearer: Kamasi Washington on His Musical Message
