“Fists of Fury” by Kamasi Washington

Kamasi Washington put "Fists of Fury" on Heaven and Earth, his fourth studio album, which Young Turks released on June 22, 2018. It's not his song: the writing credit goes to 顧嘉煇 and 王醒陶. But Washington arranged and produced it, and he does it on a grand scale.

Patrice Quinn and Dwight Trible share lead vocals over an eight-voice choir, two drummers, Tony Austin and Ronald Bruner Jr., drive it with percussionists Kahlil Cummings and Allakoi Peete, and a full string section of violins, violas, cellos and two double basses swells behind them. The winds and brass run from flute, oboe, clarinet and bassoon to French horns, trumpet, trombone and tuba, with Brandon Coleman on organ and keyboards, Cameron Graves on piano and Washington himself on tenor sax. It fits an album AllMusic's Thom Jurek called "a major dose of Afro-Futurism".

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