Kamasi Washington
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American jazz saxophonist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Kamasi Washington is an American jazz saxophonist. He is a founding member of the jazz collective West Coast Get Down. Career Washington was born in 1981 and raised in Los Angeles, California. He is a graduate of the Academy of Music of Alexander Hamilton High School in Beverlywood, Los Angeles. Washington next enrolled in UCLA's Department of Ethnomusicology, where he began playing with faculty members such as Kenny Burrell, Gerald Wilson, and Billy Higgins, who mentored a quartet with Washington, pianist Cameron Graves, and the brothers Stephen and Ronald Bruner. They released their debut album Young Jazz Giants in 2004 on Birdman Records.
