Live Music Review: Kamasi Washington - Rumours of the demise of jazz have obviously been greatly exaggerated
Kamasi Washington regularly gets slapped with the tagline ‘the biggest thing to hit jazz for years’, and the American saxophonist very much lived up to that billing at the National Concert Hall on Thursday. Big man, big tunes, big success.
This was a concert that had musical virtuosity to probably match anything this venue has hosted in its 157-year existence, and it is unlikely these hallowed walls have ever seen this level of technical ability married to such groove and improvisation.
