Episode 111 - Kamasi Washington
Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso
Higher Ground
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 1 October 2018
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Multi-talented jazz saxophonist Kamasi Washington stopped by this week to discuss growing up as a "closeted nerd" in South Central Los Angeles, playing gigs at bars and clubs as a teenager, touring with Snoop Dogg at 18, his new record, Heaven and Earth, and the pressure he feels once he steps into the studio.
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| 0:00.0 | Pushkin. |
| 0:07.0 | Every person. |
| 0:24.4 | Every person on earth, how rich or poor you are, experiences joy and pain. It's just a part of what life is. It's part of what this experience is. You're supposed to experience pain and you're supposed to experience joy. |
| 0:27.3 | And you're supposed to figure out how to manage those two things, you know? Like I was in, you know, and I broke my ankle in Norway on tour. |
| 0:36.0 | I was like at the highest of my high, like my first tour at Europe, this is great, slip down a hill, and break your ankle and your fibula, you know, like in Norway. |
| 0:48.0 | And you know what I mean? |
| 0:50.0 | Stavanger Norway of all places, you know, survived all parts of South Central and the hood and |
| 0:56.0 | gangs and LAPD and you get taken out by some snow in Stavanger Norway, you know, but it's supposed to happen. |
| 1:05.0 | Like that, that was supposed to happen and that, you know, and I feel like everything that happens |
| 1:10.4 | to me is kind of like it's it is the journey. |
| 1:17.6 | That was Kamasi Washington. I'm Sam Fregoso and this is talk easy. |
| 1:23.0 | Welcome to the show. Oh, Hey everyone. I have to imagine that if you're someone listening to this |
| 1:49.7 | podcast right now then this week has been not an easy one. The mass hysteria around whether to believe |
| 1:58.5 | yet another woman who has had yet another horrifying experience with the man just won't seem to end. I'm sure I'm not alone |
| 2:08.0 | in thinking that it's disorienting, it's distracting, it's especially difficult to concentrate and retain any semblance of sanity. |
| 2:21.0 | I mean it's hard enough to stay even a little bit sane without all this shit happening. |
| 2:27.0 | And since I don't see a change coming in the immediate future, and since I really have no interest in pinning my hopes of being |
| 2:36.7 | happy on the people in DC, I'm turning to a more reliable source of joy. |
| 2:45.0 | Music. |
| 2:47.0 | This week it was Kamossi Washington's brilliant beautiful new record, Heaven and earth. |
| 2:53.0 | Take a little. The Oh, oh, oh, oh. Oh. Oh That song was called Connection, and for those unfamiliar, Kamossi Washington is a jazz |
| 3:59.8 | saxophonist, bandleader, producer, Wunderkin at one point, Savant Now. |
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