Kamasi Washington

Kamasi Washington Langston Hughes’ “Ask Your Mama” with Ron McCurdy Quartet Walt Disney Concert Hall Sunday, November 6, 7:30pm ARTISTS Kamasi Washington Ron McCurdy Quartet ABOUT THIS PERFORMANCE Celebrated for such projects as his ambitious 172-minute masterpiece The Epic, young L.A. jazz giant Kamasi Washington combines influences like Coltrane along with soul, classical, hip-hop and gospel for a decidedly contemporary jazz perspective. Ask Your Mama takes you from gospel, blues and New Orleans to bebop and beyond with a multimedia performance of Langston Hughes’ kaleidoscopic 12-part jazz poem about the struggle for freedom in the early ’60s. Programs, artists, dates, prices and availability subject to change.