Saxophone virtuoso and widely lauded bandleader Kamasi Washington introduced hip-hop audiences to the lineage of spiritual jazz and hard bop with 2015s The Epic and 2018s Heaven and Earth, heralded as some of the best music of the 2010s by The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, Vice, Stereogum, and many more. An artist whose multidisciplinary work has garnered him Grammy and Emmy nominations, spots at Sundance Film Festival and the Whitney Biennial, and the inaugural American Music Prize, hes been called one of todays more popular musicians of any kind, as well as an ambassador for Los Angeless thriving scene by The New York Times. Earl Sweatshirt is the virtuosic byproduct of Los Angeles fertile ground, where hip-hop sowed its seeds and historic cultural movements were born. The prodigiously gifted writer, lyricist, and producer grew from the zeitgeist from which contemporary collectives in hip-hop today were predicated. And while most movements become fleeting as soon as they arrive, Earl pushed forward, documented his growth and self-discovery on record, and cemented himself as one of the foremost culturally relevant MCs in the gameone who never strayed too far away from his Los Angeles beat-scene roots. His debut album Doris arrived in 2013 and introduced the world to a more realized vision than his seminal mixtape Earl, which was released three years prior when he was just 16 years old. He followed Doris with the critically lauded I Dont Like Shit, I Dont Go Outside in 2015, further exploring the depth of his technical dexterity with more swagger than he had on prior releases. Three years later, in 2018, he released Some Rap Songs, the tightly wrought album that found a more self-aware and mature Earl present in his reflections on being in the public eye since he was a teenager, coupled with his reconciling with the death of his father. Enter Feet of Clay, the conceptual 2019 project that continues the written narrative of Earls life in todays societal landscape and worldview in real time.
Videos
Wish You Were Here
South Coast Repertory's Julianne Argyros Stage (1/12 - 2/2) | ||
RACHMANINOFF AND THE TSAR
South Coast Repertory (2/19 - 3/2) | ||
Batiashvili Plays Beethoven
Walt Disney Concert Hall (1/3 - 1/5) | ||
Cody Fry with Orchestra
Walt Disney Concert Hall (1/10 - 1/10) | ||
New Year's Eve with D-Nice & Friends
Walt Disney Concert Hall (12/31 - 12/31) | ||
FARM HALL by Katherine Moar
Promenade Playhouse (1/10 - 1/26) NEW PLAY | ||
RENT in Concert
Segerstrom Center for the Arts, Segerstrom Hall (3/15 - 3/15) | ||
A.I.M by Kyle Abraham
Bram Goldsmith Theater at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts (4/11 - 4/12) | ||
John Jorgenson Quintet with Frank Vignola
Smothers Theatre (1/11 - 1/11) | ||
Tchaikovsky & The Mermaid
Walt Disney Concert Hall (2/7 - 2/9) | ||
Dear Evan Hansen (Non-Equity)
Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts (2/14 - 2/19) | ||
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