The Optimist, by Ryan Porter

The Optimist

by Ryan Porter

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Egor S. Skorbenko This is West Coast cool at its finest! Favorite track: The Instrumental Hip-Hoppa.

ronn branton You pack of monsters - damn!

Janina Perez Love this West Coast Cool.Solid Sunday listen

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1.	The Psalmist 06:33	buy track
2.	Obamanomics 03:54	buy track
3.	Strugglesville 06:10	buy track
4.	The Instrumental Hip-Hoppa 08:17	buy track
5.	DÃ©jÃ Vu 07:06	buy track
6.	Night Court In Compton 05:03	buy track
7.	K-Wash 11:33	buy track
8.	Anaya 10:36	buy track
9.	Little Sunflower 08:24	buy track
10.	Impressions 15:45	buy track
11.	Chocolate Nuisance 17:07	buy track

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On February 23, 2018, West Coast Get Down's Ryan Porter will launch the 2CD / 3LP set The Optimist on World Galaxy. The Optimist pulls together veterans of the LA music scene, including West Coast Get Down alumni Kamasi Washington (tenor saxophone), Miles Mosley (upright bass), Cameron Graves (piano, fender rhodes), Tony Austin (drums), Jumaane Smith (trumpet), Edward Livingston (upright bass), Aaron Haggerty (drums), Brandon Coleman (fender rhodes), Dominic Therioux (electric bass), Robert Miller (drums), and Lyndon Rochelle (drums).

The Optimist was recorded at Kamasi's parents house between 2008 and 2009, captured inside a small tiny basement area their crew called "The Shack." This was before The Epic catapulted the group into the highest stratospheres of jazz music and feature associations started to populate through the world of Kendrick Lamar.

Ryan Porter has spread his craft to the masses for decades, included on critically acclaimed albums such as the Original Netflix Series soundtrack The Get Down, Push The Sky Away from Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, The Epic LP and Truth EP from Kamasi Washington, To Pimp A Butterfly from Kendrick Lamar, and many more. The Optimist represents these albums and the incubation period that's continually reverberated through his career, seasoned with the brilliance these individuals build on as a unified cell.

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released February 23, 2018

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