“Street Fighter Mas” by Kamasi Washington

"Street Fighter Mas" comes from Heaven and Earth, the fourth album by American jazz saxophonist Kamasi Washington, released on Young Turks on June 22, 2018, and it's built on a scale that would make most bandleaders blink. Washington composed, arranged and produced it and plays tenor saxophone, and the credits read like a census: three drummers in Tony Austin, Ronald Bruner Jr. and Robert Searight, Miles Mosley on double bass and electric bass, Brandon Coleman on organ, keyboards and vocoder, Cameron Graves on piano, Ryan Porter's trombone and Dontae Winslow's trumpet, plus flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, French horns, tuba, a string section and an eight-voice choir with Patrice Quinn among its singers.

The album hid a second disc, The Choice, inside a sealed part of the packaging that had to be cut open, and critics met the whole package with near-universal acclaim.

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