Kamasi Washington is a revolutionary figure in the L.A. jazz scene, celebrated for his soaring, cosmic improvisations – and his work with everyone from Kendrick Lamar to Michelle Obama. On Fearless Movement, the saxophonist’s first full-length in six years, he finds inspiration in more earthly pleasures: family, connection and the act of living
Intentionally or not, Bar Italia have cultivated an air of inscrutability with their approach to being a rock band that, depending on your POV, is standoffish, wry or just the right side of pretentious. As they bid the underground goodbye, the time is apt to find out who they really are