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Kenny Garrett

Kenny Garrett (USA)

More than any other artist in traditional jazz today, Kenny Garrett and his band are known to entice audiences to want to get up and groove. The Grammy award winning saxophonist is considered to be the 'most important alto saxophonist of his generation' (Washington City Paper).
In conjunction with Nathan Horne.


Line Up:

Kenny Garrett - saxophone
plus band

On Stage: 5
Travel party: 6




Biography:

Kenny Garrett's great new album "Sounds from the Ancestors" recalls the sounds of West African music and its role in Jazz, Gospel, Motown, Hip-Hop and more. "Sounds from the Ancestors" was released on August 27, 2021 via Mack Avenue Records and immediately topped the iTunes Jazz chart! It is a multi-faceted album. The music, however, doesn’t lodge inside the tight confines of the jazz idiom, which is not surprising considering the alto saxophonist and composer acknowledges the likes of Aretha Franklin and Marvin Gaye as significant touchstones. Similar to how Miles Davis’ seminal LP, On the Corner, subverted its main guiding lights – James Brown, Jimi Hendrix and Sly Stone – then crafted its own unique, polyrhythmic, groove-laden, improv-heavy universe, Sounds from the Ancestors occupies its own space with intellectual clarity, sonic ingenuity and emotional heft. “The concept initially was about trying to get some of the musical sounds that I remembered as a kid growing up – sounds that lift your spirit from people like John Coltrane, ‘A Love Supreme’; Aretha Franklin, ‘Amazing Grace’; Marvin Gaye, ‘What’s Going On’; and the spiritual side of the church,” Garrett explains. “When I started to think about them, I realized it was the spirit from my ancestors.” Indeed, Sounds from the Ancestors reflects the rich jazz, R&B, and gospel history of his hometown of Detroit. More important though, it also reverberates with a modern cosmopolitan vibrancy – notably the inclusion of music coming out of France, Cuba, Nigeria and Guadeloupe. Over the course of a stellar career that has spanned more than 30 years, saxophonist Kenny Garrett has become the preeminent alto saxophonist of his generation. From his first gig with the Duke Ellington Orchestra (led by Mercer Ellington) through his time spent with musicians such as Freddie Hubbard, Woody Shaw, Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers and Miles Davis, Garrett has always brought a vigorous yet melodic, and truly distinctive, alto saxophone sound to each musical situation. As a bandleader for the last two decades, he has also continually grown as a composer.



Discography:

1984 Introducing Kenny Garrett - Criss Cross
1988 Garrett 5 - Paddle Wheel
1989 Prisoner of Love - Atlantic
1990 African Exchange Student - Atlantic
1992 Black Hope - Warner
1994 Threshold - Warner
1995 Stars & Stripes Live - ITM
1995 Triology - Warner
1996 Pursuance: The Music of John Coltrane - Warner
1997 Songbook - Warner
1999 Simply Said - Warner
2001 Old Folks - WestWind
2002 Happy People - Warner
2003 Standard of Language - Warner Bros.
2006 Beyond the Wall - Nonesuch
2008 Sketches of MD - Mack Avenue
2012 Seeds from the Underground - Mack Avenue
2013 Pushing The World Away
2016 Do Your Dance - Mack Avenue
2021 Sounds From The Ancestors - Mack Avenue



YouTube Videos:

Pushing The World Away EPK

Kenny Garrett at Jazz Baltica (1997)

Kenny Garrett Quartet in San Francisco, USA (2011)

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