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A Birthday Celebration Kenny Garrett's 50th Birthday Celebration at The Iridium October 9, 2010

Source: Notes on Jazz by Ralph A. Miriello
November 1, 2010

At fifty years old, the saxophonist Kenny Garrett has definitively come into his own. Despite forever being associated with Miles Davis, where he spent five years with the iconoclast trumpeter from 1986 through 1991, he is only credited on one Davis album “Amandla" from 1989. It is time to evaluate the fine saxophonist on his own merits and not on his past associations, no matter how storied they may be. On this evening of celebration, Garrett who was celebrating his ...

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