{"product_id":"kamasi-washington-the-epic-cd","title":"Kamasi Washington - The Epic CD","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe band are all from Los Angeles, mostly South Central, and\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eits members - who call themselves variously “The Next Step” and the “The West\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCoast Get Down” - have been congregating since they were barely teenagers in a backyard\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eshack in Inglewood. Washington, 32, has known Bruner since he was two. The rest\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003emet, at various stages, by the time they were in high school. The hours they\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ehave put into the music, playing together and practicing alone, total cumulatively\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ein the tens of thousands.“Nothing compares to these guys,” says Barbara Sealy,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ethe former West Coast director of the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jass, who\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ehas championed Kamasi and his compatriots from the beginning. “I challenge any\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003egroup to go out on stage with them and see if they can keep up with it...\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eKamasi is at the top of his game, and only getting better.” “ These young\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eguys,” the rapper Common says, “remind me of why I love music.”And the story\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Epic tells, without words but rather through some combination of magic,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003emastery, and sheer force of imagination, is the story of Kamasi Washington and the\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNext Step and their collective mission: to remove jazz from the shelf of relics\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand make it new, unexpected, and dangerous again.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Redeye","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43886335000694,"sku":"5054429000191","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1276\/9409\/files\/201374735161.jpg?v=1784755514","url":"https:\/\/erodingwinds.com\/products\/kamasi-washington-the-epic-cd","provider":"Eroding Winds","version":"1.0","type":"link"}