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(In contrast, at a recent free performance by the influential 90-year-old jazz pianist Randy Weston at the Brooklyn Public Library, there were only a handful of audience members under 50.) While Washington’s current tour schedule includes traditional jazz festivals like Rotterdam’s North Sea and Rhode Island’s Newport, he’s been booked for several major spring and summer rock fests, including Coachella, Bonnaroo and Pitchfork.

Packed houses also greeted Washington when he returned to the city for his BRIC JazzFest and Le Poisson Rouge sets that October, and at a February show at Webster Hall, over 1600 concertgoers responded to his performance with rapturous delight.īut what really distinguished these concerts wasn’t merely the exponentially expanding size of the audiences but their youthfulness, composed largely of twenty- and thirtysomethings up front at the Webster Hall show, the crowd was so energetic that moshing even broke out. This was the kind of reception more befitting an established jazz legend making a rare appearance after several decades away, not a young musician in his first ever New York City gigs as a bandleader.

Inside, the club was totally overstuffed, while outside on the street was even more chaotic, with hopeful standing-room purchasers lined up down West 3rd all the way to Sixth Avenue.

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The 200-seat capacity venue was completely sold out for a series of concerts by Los Angeles saxophonist Kamasi Washington and the West Coast Get Down, and the atmosphere thrummed with anticipation. Surveying the scene at the Blue Note Jazz Club in New York’s Greenwich Village last August, it was clear that something remarkable was afoot.