The Epic
by Kamasi Washington
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Kamasi Washington bestography
The Epic is ranked as the best album by Kamasi Washington.
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The Epic track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 83 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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The Epic rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 1 hour ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  baystateoftheart | Top 100 Music Albums of 2015 | 37/100 | 3 |
| 2026 | Rm12398 | Top 29 Music Albums of 2015 | 6/29 | 4 |
| 2026 | mttr-in-plc | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2010s | 58/100 | 9 |
| 2026 |  dihansse | Top 66 Music Albums of 2015 | 63/66 | 0 |
| 2026 |  covecove | Favorite Albums 200-101 | 76/100 | - |
| 2026 | cicadelic | Glide’s 20 Best Albums of 2015 | 33/40 | - |
| 2026 | mttr-in-plc | Top 25 Music Albums of 2015 | 7/25 | 4 |
| 2026 |  greatson | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2010s | 6/100 | 19 |
| 2026 | cicadelic | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2010s | 56/100 | 9 |
| 2026 | jdizzle123456 | Greatest Jazz Albums of All Time | 45/50 | - |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 490 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 2,969 | |||
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The Epic ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 09/16/2026 11:21 | ASOARE | 2,540 | 78/100 |
| ! | 09/10/2026 23:26 | xhitmanx | 1,604 | 75/100 |
| ! | 09/01/2026 15:22 | AndyLish79 | 505 | 81/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 1% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 81.4/100, a mean average of 80.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 81.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.9.
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The Epic forum mentions
BestEverAlbums 09/01/2026 16:00 in Monthly overall chart movements
imacgill 08/23/2026 22:27 in What album are you listening to? (cont.) BestEverAlbums 08/05/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5395): By areminderThe Epic comments
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This might be the best jazz album to come out in the past 20 something years. Wow this is just incredible. Accurately named for sure.
andy_hunter TOP 100 COMMENTER 05/17/2015 16:24 | #141679 | TOP COMMENT
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While listening, I'm sometimes overcome by an irresistible urge to swear loudly, such is the quality of this album.
Socipluco 08/15/2015 11:02 | #147717 | TOP COMMENT
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Incredible. Or i should say, EPIC. Two drummers, two bassists (one is Thundercat), a pianist, a keyboardist that often uses synths, a three horns section (trombone-trumpet-tenor saxopone), a singer, a 30-pieces orchestra and a choir of 20 voices or more. And yes, you understood right, this is a jazz album. It's amazing how Kamasi managed to make an album that's relentlessly innovating on many levels but at the same time it takes all the great tradition from swing to free-jazz and take it to the 21st century listeners packaged in a sprawling 3-cd set. It's a looong album but you can listen to every cd like if it was an album on its own terms. The desire of taking again jazz to popularity is genuine and seeing what Flying Lotus, Kendrick Lamar and Dr. Dre have made in the last two years, you could say that a new era of creativity is coming for jazz.
Under normal circumstances I would find any album at 3 hours long a daunting listen, but not this beast.
Hopefully Kamasi will get the recognition he deserves for this album, because it's up there with with all the great jazz classics. Time will tell though.
My mind is blown by this record. The genius is just oozing out of it at every step.
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