Support the Official Release

You can listen to Kamasi Washington’s The Epic on:

• Apple Music
• Spotify

Or purchase The Epic on:

• iTunes
• Amazon Music

Links

• Thundercat
• Call and Response (music)
• Kamasi Washington’s Harmony of Difference EP
• Cherokee (a.k.a. “Indian Love Song”) by Ray Noble, 1938
• University of North Texas One O’Clock Lab Band covering Ray Noble’s “Cherokee”
• Clifford Brown and Max Roach covering Ray Noble’s “Cherokee”
• We continue to get our instrument solos mixed up in “Clair de Lune”, the solo we disliked was Miles Mosley on the acoustic bass. Sorry cello players!
• Malcolm X’s Eulogy, as delivered by Ossie Davis at Malcolm X’s funeral February 27, 1965
• Malcolm X’s last public speech, the same night his house was bombed and only days before his assassination.
• “Battery Kinzie”, Fleet Foxes Helplessness Blues
• Last song wouldn’t be complete without us once again getting our instrument solos mixed up; The solo we loved from “The Message” was the electric bass solo played by Stephen Bruner.

References

“Malcolm’s Theme”—when I was younger I got caught up in gangs and I was headed down that path. I had two things that brought me out of that, I had a cousin give me an Art Blakey mixtape and I was in this program and we read Malcolm X’s autobiography. I always wanted to give that same thing back. It had such a profound effect on me that maybe I could help someone else. If I could do something that people would look back on the message he was giving during his life, with the music.

“Interview: Kamasi Washington”, Spectrum Culture

Michael’s Track Order

Volume I: The Plan

1. Change of the Guard
2. Askim
3. Isabelle
4. Final Thought
5. The Next Step
6. The Rhythm Changes

Volume II: The Glorious Tale

1. Miss Understanding
2. Leroy and Lanisha
3. Clair de Lune
4. Seven Prayers
5. Henrietta Our Hero
6. The Message

Volume III: The Historic Repetition

1. Re Run
2. Cherokee
3. Re Run Home
4. Malcolm’s Theme
5. The Magnificent 7

Marc’s Track Order

Volume I: The Plan

1. Change of the Guard
2. Isabelle
3. Final Thought
4. The Next Step
5. Askim

Volume II: The Glorious Tale

1. Miss Understanding
2. Leroy and Lanisha
3. Clair de Lune
4. Seven Prayers
5. Henrietta Our Hero
6. The Magnificent 7

Volume III: The Historic Repetition

1. Re Run
2. Cherokee
3. The Rhythm Changes
4. Malcolm’s Theme
5. Re Run Home
6. The Message

Art

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