Change of the Guard
Context
Opening track of The Epic, Kamasi Washington's triple album released in 2015 on Brainfeeder, first volume titled The Plan. Recorded in Los Angeles during a long session in December 2011 with a band, choir and strings, it contributed to the album's critical success and to the visibility of the Los Angeles jazz scene.
In the genealogy of jazz
This track belongs to Renaissances (Los Angeles, London), Spiritual jazz. Among the origins and influences of Renaissances: Acid jazz, jazz-rap, nu jazz, Spiritual jazz, Fusion, jazz-rock, jazz-funk, British jazz, Afrobeat, makossa, highlife-jazz, ECM and European jazz, Current scene (New York, Chicago, worldwide).