Kamasi Washington Unites Jazz & Hip-Hop Musicians in Honor of the Watts Rebellion '65 & L.A. Uprising '92

Kamasi Washington hustled to DTLA in August to lead a project for more than 1,000 fans at Grand Performances titled "65-92: The Rhythm Changes but the Struggle Remains," that distilled 50 years of African-American music into a boiling ball of fuzzed-out bass, pummeling drums and wailing horns. The show looked at L..A.'s divided past and pointed to the future. "Music only serves one purpose — to express the essence of a person's experience," Washington says. <i>Read the full story: <a href="http://www.laweekly.com/music/kamasi-washington-reinterprets-the-music-of-the-watts-and-rodney-king-riots-video-5865792"><b>Kamasi Washington Reinterprets the Music of the Watts and Rodney King Riots</b></a>.</i>