Kamasi Washington, the hot-shot jazz maestro, trades genre-stuffed sprawl for punchy funk brevity on his new score for Netflix’s Michelle Obama documentary. Ever since 2015’s mammoth, triple-disc odyssey, The Epic, the LA-based tenor saxophonist, composer, bandleader and multi-instrumentalist Kamasi Washington has been a major player in the recent revival of jazz’s fortunes. … [Read more...] about Kamasi Washington: Becoming (Music From the Netflix Original Documentary) – Review
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All Points East Festival 2019 Review – Sunday 26th May
Victoria Park’s summer festival, All Points East, returned for another diverse helping of guitar rock, art-pop, jazz and electronica. Victoria Park’s eclectic, two-week blockbuster summer festival, All Points East, opened for its second-year with a varied three-day programme encompassing the hedonism of Primal Scream, the block-rocking beats of The Chemical Brothers, the … [Read more...] about All Points East Festival 2019 Review – Sunday 26th May