Washington is known for collaborations, so expect a series of surprise guests. The only artist that has been announced is his ...

The saxophonist and bandleader consecrated LACMA, scored Shinichirō Watanabe’s Lazarus and now stretches nightly in a ...

Saxophonist, bandleader and composer Kamasi Washington is a titan of jazz and also someone who works across genres and ...

The design of the new Los Angeles County Museum of Art, which just opened up to previews for LACMA members and media in the past few days, has reasonably been described as controversial, to say the ...

8:21 a.m. July 1, 2025: An earlier version of this article correctly stated that LACMA premiered its Wilshire campus in 1965 but mistakenly referred to the opening as 70 years ago instead of 60. “The ...

When Kamasi Washington called his new album The Epic, he meant it. His band has two drummers, two bass players, both piano and keyboards. There are three horns and two lead vocals. There's a 20-piece ...

Kamasi Washington implored the audience at the Magic Stick Wednesday night: “Diversity is not something that should be tolerated, it is something that should be celebrated.” Donning a magnificent robe ...

LACMA CEO Michael Govan joins with details about a forthcoming, can’t miss Kamasi Washington performance in the museum — plus, he shares some favorite tunes. LACMA CEO Michael Govan joins with details ...

In 2015, Kamasi Washington emerged from Los Angeles with an increasingly rare thing: a breakthrough jazz album. Following a 2014 Nielsen year-end report declaring “jazz the least-popular genre in the ...

Kamasi Washington will swing through New Orleans for not one, but four, performances at One Eyed Jacks during Jazz Fest. The saxophonist and composer will take the stage at the French Quarter venue on ...