{"product_id":"kamasi-washington-the-epic-lp","title":"Kamasi Washington ‎- The Epic - LP { Vinyl LP }","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Discs: 3\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe band are all from Los Angeles, mostly South Central, and\u003cbr\u003eits members - who call themselves variously “The Next Step” and the “The West\u003cbr\u003eCoast Get Down” - have been congregating since they were barely teenagers in a backyard\u003cbr\u003eshack in Inglewood. Washington, 32, has known Bruner since he was two. The rest\u003cbr\u003emet, at various stages, by the time they were in high school. The hours they\u003cbr\u003ehave put into the music, playing together and practicing alone, total cumulatively\u003cbr\u003ein the tens of thousands.“Nothing compares to these guys,” says Barbara Sealy,\u003cbr\u003ethe former West Coast director of the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jass, who\u003cbr\u003ehas championed Kamasi and his compatriots from the beginning. “I challenge any\u003cbr\u003egroup to go out on stage with them and see if they can keep up with it...\u003cbr\u003eKamasi is at the top of his game, and only getting better.” “ These young\u003cbr\u003eguys,” the rapper Common says, “remind me of why I love music.”And the story\u003cbr\u003eThe Epic tells, without words but rather through some combination of magic,\u003cbr\u003emastery, and sheer force of imagination, is the story of Kamasi Washington and the\u003cbr\u003eNext Step and their collective mission: to remove jazz from the shelf of relics\u003cbr\u003eand make it new, unexpected, and dangerous again.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Redeye","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56682977329484,"sku":"5054429002300","price":10.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0979\/2913\/4412\/files\/original_f22cf876-2042-44e4-b9e4-fef771207eb2.jpg?v=1770597087","url":"https:\/\/vinylpulses.com\/products\/kamasi-washington-the-epic-lp","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}