. >> rose: we conclude with kamasi washington, the great jazz artist. >> jazz has been trapped in a poor image, and i think that it's been trapped in an image of something that is an his torque hic -- historic relic or something that is made to serve a purpose, to serve some other purpose other than to just enjoy. i think it's the reverse. it's such an expressive music, and when you hear jazz, you really hear a commune of people expressing themselves together. >> rose: diplo and kamasi washington when we continue. >> rose: funding for "charlie rose" has been provided by: >> and by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and information services worldwide. captioning sponsored by rose communications >> rose: welcome to cuba. thank you. >> rose: why did you want to come? >> well, i guess the main reason is we were able to come. >> rose: right. the idea opened up to do a concert here. we've done a lot of concerts, my group, all through the caribbean. i've always been fond of cuba. i have been here once before to see another person perform and i thought when i had the opportunity, we had to

. >> ♪ charlie: i'm pleased to have kamasi washington at this table for the first time. welcome. o have you playing in the studio. even more impressive. kamasi: thank you. charlie: you said some interesting things. you said jazz is like a telescope and a lot of other music is like a microscope. kamasi: yeah. what i meant is that jazz has a very wide expanse of possibilities and sometimes you can kind of get lost in that. one thing i learned from playing the music was the importance of some of the subtleties that are more like a microscopic view of something. when i took that kind of approach and applied it to the wide expanse of jazz it kind of really opened me up and opened my possibilities. they've really become endless. >> ♪ charlie: your dad introduced you to the saxaphone? kamasi: yeah. music in general. he started me playing music when i was 3 years old. it's been my whole life. charlie: was he a musician? kamasi: yes. saxaphonist. charlie: how that is to have your father there? kamasi: it's beautiful. i grew up always wondering and used to always wish other people could hea