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Kenny Garrett is a jazz saxophonist. He was born in Detroit, MI in 1960. His father was a tenor saxophonist. Kenny's career took off when he joined the Duke Ellington Orchestra in 1978, then led by Duke's son, Mercer Ellington. Three years later he played in the Mel Lewis Orchestra (playing the music of Thad Jones) and also the Dannie Richmond Quartet (focusing on Charles Mingus's music). In 1984, he recorded his first album as a bandleader, Introducing Kenny Garrett. From there, his career has included 11 albums as a leader and numerous Grammy nominations. During his career, Kenny has played with many jazz greats such as Miles Davis, Freddie Hubbard, Woody Shaw, McCoy Tyner, Pharoah Sanders, Brian Blade, Bobby Hutcherson, Ron Carter, Elvin Jones, and Mulgrew Miller

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Article: Live Review

The Tension Is Where the Music Lives: Miles Davis at 100, Part 3

Read "The Tension Is Where the Music Lives: Miles Davis at 100, Part 3" reviewed by Kofi Adjepong-Boateng


Herbie Hancock Celebrates Miles Davis Hollywood Bowl Los Angeles, CA August 19, 2026 The Hollywood Bowl began as a picnic ground called Daisy Dell, a canyon chosen for its acoustics, willed into being largely by women, chief among them Artie Mason Carter, a music teacher who believed music was for everyone ...

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Article: Interview

‘I Thought I Composed That’: Terence Blanchard and the Inheritance of Jazz

Read "‘I Thought I Composed That’: Terence Blanchard and the Inheritance of Jazz" reviewed by Kofi Adjepong-Boateng


Cadogan Hall, where Terence Blanchard and I met, was built in 1907 as a church in the Byzantine Revival style. When its congregation dwindled, the Cadogan Estate reopened it in 2004 as an arts venue, preserving Arild Rosenkrantz's stained glass and stone while the purpose was reimagined--a fitting room in which to discuss “inheritance" and “creation" ...

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Article: Live Review

Kenny Garrett at Ronnie Scott’s: The Ancestors in the Room

Read "Kenny Garrett at Ronnie Scott’s: The Ancestors in the Room" reviewed by Kofi Adjepong-Boateng


Kenny Garrett Ronnie Scott's London July 17, 2026 There are jazz clubs and there is the basement on Frith Street. Kenny Garrett, whom Miles Davis  heard and hired nearly forty years ago, is back, and at the first notes of 'Haynes Here' the room understood this would be not a night ...

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Article: Live Review

Jazz Aspen Snowmass June Experience 2026

Read "Jazz Aspen Snowmass June Experience 2026" reviewed by Geoff Anderson


Jazz Aspen Snowmass June Experience 2026 Aspen, Colorado June 26-27, 2026 When nourishing the soul, it is important to consume a balanced diet. Failure to draw from a wide array of musical genres can lead to ennui, shallow breathing and excessive television watching. A properly tuned soul can be an ephemeral thing, ...

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Article: Live Review

Santana at Red Rocks

Read "Santana at Red Rocks" reviewed by Geoff Anderson


Santana Red Rocks Amphitheatre Denver, CO May 27, 2026  Santana, the man, the band. The line between the two has always been blurry. Now, it seems, it has been completely erased. Carlos Santana brought his ten-piece band to Red Rocks in late May as part of the “Oneness Tour." Wednesday's show, the first of ...

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Article: Album Review

Nat Reeves: Now In Time

Read "Now In Time" reviewed by Jack Bowers


As a gift for Nat Reeves' 70th birthday in May 2025, Ken Kitchings, owner of the Side Door Jazz Club in Old Lyme, Connecticut, said he would underwrite a recording for the renowned bassist using whatever musicians Reeves chose to recruit. Having played and recorded with a who's who of jazz luminaries during his 50-plus-year career, ...

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Article: Album Review

Joan Fort: Hangin' In

Read "Hangin' In" reviewed by Jack Bowers


Hangin' In is the second recording under his name by Spanish-born, Netherlands-based guitarist Joan Fort who shows on every one of the album's nine radiant and alluring themes--six of which he wrote--why his star is rapidly rising in the jazz world at large. Fort, who was not yet thirty years old when the album ...

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Article: Interview

Author George Cole On Miles Davis' Final Decade

Read "Author George Cole On Miles Davis' Final Decade" reviewed by Jack Kenny


All About Jazz interviews George Cole author of The Last Miles, which concentrates on the final period of Miles Davis' life. Cole also maintains a website with additional interviews and research about Davis' life between 1980 and 1991. In these pages John Kelman wrote about The Last Miles: The Music of Miles Davis, 1980-1991, “There ...

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Article: Album Review

Alexa Tarantino: The Roar and the Whisper

Read "The Roar and the Whisper" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic


If there is one true sound to describe the sound of luminous liberation, young veteran saxophonist/flautist/composer Alexa Tarantino captures it handily and shares it profusely with her band and everyone else within earshot of The Roar and the Whisper. Tarantino, whose star continues to flare via her ongoing gig at Jazz At Lincoln Center ...


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