What gear does Kamasi Washington use?

“That’s the record that probably affected me the most. Even now when I feel I need to be inspired, I go back to it.”

“It really propelled me and got me into the idea of checking out different musical styles from around the world.”

“It hit me in my head and also emotionally.”

“When I heard Gerald Wilson’s seven/eight/nine-part harmonies, it really resonated with me.”

“Stravinsky’s music opened my mind to the possibilities of how powerful the human voice can be.”

“She’s such a master of phrasing and that subtlety made me want to be able to do that with the saxophone.”

“I just dug the texture. It was so meditative. There was a freedom to it. Almost like free jazz.”

“Busta’s flow and delivery is so dope. I used to mimic it on sax.”

“It took jazz out of the past and put it in the present for me.”

“It had all the funk but something a little extra to it.”

“He was speaking about problems of the world but it comes from such a place of love.”

“When you listen to that record it’s so soulful.”

“I loved it straight from the jump and everyone was shocked.”

“But that tape is what made jazz cool to me and not like, my Dad’s music.”

“playing those songs was like playing a soundtrack to my early adolescence.”

“He wrote a lot of the record way back when we did The Epic so it’s all this music I haven’t heard in years”