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Kenny Garrett: Musical Explorer
by Jason Crane
Alto saxophonist and composer Kenny Garrett has released more than a dozen albums over a career spanning nearly three decades. His resume would make the average jazz fan weak in the knees: Freddy Hubbard, Woody Shaw, Miles Davis, Art Blakey, the Duke Ellington Band, the Mel Lewis Orchestra, and many others.Garrett was born in ...
Kenny Garrett: Beyond the Wall
by John Kelman
Sometimes homages can be too reverential. Alto saxophonist Kenny Garrett, with a spiritual energy mirroring a significant influence, John Coltrane, intended to use Beyond the Wall as an opportunity to record with pianist McCoy Tyner, with whom he's shared the bandstand on occasion. Though a scheduling conflict prevented Tyner from participating, his spirit--and that of his ...
Kenny Garrett: Beyond the Wall
by Troy Collins
Alto saxophonist Kenny Garrett's first recording for Nonesuch, a concept album inspired by a recent trip to China, finds him in the company of an all-star ensemble. A phenomenally gifted soloist with a singular tone and instantly identifiable phrasing, he has walked a fine line between mainstream jazz and more popular forms in the recent past. ...
Kenny Garrett
by Peter Madsen
Greetings to all of you Wide-Open Jazz and Beyond readers. I've just returned from a one month European tour with the great funk trombonist Fred Wesley of James Brown fame (who I'll write about in a future article). We played many of the summer festivals including the world-famous Montreaux Jazz Festival. As I was roaming the ...
Standard Of Language
Label: Warner Music Group
Released: 2003
Track listing: 1. what is this thing called love 2. kurita sensei 3. xyz 4. native tongue 5. chief blackwater 6. doc
tone's short speech 7. just a second to catch my breath 8. gendai 9. standard of language I II III
Kenny Garrett: Standard of Language
by Riel Lazarus
The glowing reviews have already begun to pour in for saxophonist Kenny Garrett's newest release, Standard of Language - a recording of substantial quality, and a reaffirmation of Garrett's place among the best in jazz today. But as good as Garrett may be, it's the collective power of the ensemble that's most significant here. With pianist ...
Kenny Garrett: Standard of Language
by James Taylor
On Standard of Language, alto saxophonist Kenny Garrett explores every popular trend in jazz, covering the last fifty years of the genre’s history. From free jazz to soft and all the bop in between, Garrett’s fourth Warner Bros. release shows why he is loved by jazz-heads everywhere, from the Philharmonic to Philly’s south-side.
Kenny Garrett: Standard of Language
by AAJ Staff
If vigorous jazz leaves you faint, Kenny Garrett's eighth Warner album, Standard of Language, will knock you out cold. It is intense and unrelenting in its goal of cutting a new edge on the traditions that have shaped Garrett's mastery of the saxophone. It is clear from the opening technical interplay between drums and ...
A Fireside Chat with Kenny Garrett
by AAJ Staff
Once upon a time, Miles Davis recorded Live Around the World, including a catchy version of 'Human Nature.' An unknown Kenny Garrett, all of twenty-eight at the time, was featured on alto. Garrett didn't remain unknown long, recording Introducing Kenny Garrett with Woody Shaw and becoming 'the' alto player with a trio of critically acclaimed releases, ...
Happy People
Label: Warner Music Group
Released: 2002
Track listing: Song For DiFang, Happy People, Tango In 6, Ain't Nothing But The Blues, Song #8, Halima's Story, Monk-ing Around, A Hole in One, Thessalonika, Asian Medley, Brother B. Harper
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