Truth
Context
Piece from Kamasi Washington's triple album The Epic, released on May 5, 2015, on Brainfeeder. The record was made during a month of sessions in December 2011 at Kingsize Soundlabs in Los Angeles, with a choir of about twenty singers and a string ensemble. It was acclaimed by critics (83/100 on Metacritic).
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).