Jazz innovator Kamasi Washington releases his new album "Heaven & Earth" on Young Turks. The long-awaited follow-up to his debut "The Epic" is a concept album consisting of two halves that can be thematically assigned to Heaven and Earth

The total of 16 tracks, spread over 2 CDs or 4 vinyls, were recorded with his band The Next Step, as well as members of "The West Coast Get Down Collective" at Henson Studios in Los Angeles. The music on "Heaven & Earth" was written and composed by Kamasi Washington and arranged with the assistance of Thundercat, Terrace Martin, Ronald Bruner, Jr, Cameron Graves, Brandon Coleman, Miles Mosley, Patrice Quinn, Tony Austin and many others.