Kenny Garrett

Kenny Garrett (born October 9, 1960) is a Grammy Award-winning American post-bop jazz saxophonist and flautist who gained recognition in his youth as a member of the Duke Ellington Orchestra and of Miles Davis's band. Since then, he has pursued a solo care.

Garrett is best known in many circles for the five years he spent playing with Miles Davis during Davis's electric period, and has stated that he has become accustomed to this association:

Garrett's own career as a saxophonist took off when he joined the Duke Ellington Orchestra in 1978,[1] then led by Duke's son, Mercer Ellington. A few years later he performed 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, on the CrissCross label. He then recorded two albums with Atlantic Records: Prisoner of Love and African Exchange Student.

Garrett signed to the Warner Bros. Records label, and beginning with Black Hope, in 1992, he has continued to record with them. Among his recordings on Warner Bros. are Pursuance: The Music of John Coltrane, recorded in 1996, and Songbook, his first album made up entirely of his own compositions, recorded in 1997 and nominated for a Grammy Award.

саксофонист Кенни Гаррет

During his career, Garrett has performed and recorded with many jazz greats such as Miles Davis, Art Blakey, Joe Henderson, Brad Mehldau, Freddie Hubbard, Woody Shaw, McCoy Tyner, Pharoah Sanders, Brian Blade, Marcus Miller, Chick Corea, John McLaughlin, Herbie Hancock, Bobby Hutcherson, Ron Carter, Elvin Jones, and Mulgrew Miller. Garrett's music sometimes exhibits Asian influences, an aspect which is especially prevalent in his 2006 Grammy-nominated recording, Beyond the Wall.

I was in Miles' band for about five years. I think that tag will always be there. That is five years of my life. That's the only musical situation that I was there longer than a year. It was a good five years. I have gotten used to that. Some people became aware of me through Miles and then they would come to my concerts. I think that is part of my history and I am proud of that. I am still trying to carve out my own name and my own music. I just look at it as a part of history and it is going to be there. Every time they mention Kenny Garrett, there will probably be some association with Miles Davis, but at the same time, when they mention Herbie Hancock, they always mention Miles Davis, or Wayne Shorter. You get used to it after a while. (allaboutjazz.com)

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Дискография Кенни Гаррета

As leader

Introducing Kenny Garrett, 1984 (Criss Cross)
5 Paddle Wheel, 1988
Prisoner of Love, 1989 (Atlantic)
African Exchange Student, 1990 (Atlantic)
Black Hope, 1992 (Warner Bros.)
Triology, 1995 (Warner Bros.)
Stars & Stripes Live, 1995
Pursuance: The Music of John Coltrane, 1996 (Warner Bros.)
Songbook, 1997 (Warner Bros.)
Simply Said, 1999 (Warner Bros.)
Old Folks, 2001
Birds of a Feather: A Tribute to Charlie Parker, 2001
Happy People, 2002 (Warner Bros.)
Standard of Language, 2003 (Warner Bros.)
Beyond the Wall, 2006 (Nonesuch)
Sketches of MD – Live at the Iridium, 2008 (Mack Avenue)
Seeds from the Underground, 2012 (Mack Avenue)
Pushing the World Away, 2013 (Mack Avenue)
Do Your Dance!, 2016 (Mack Avenue)

As sideman

With Geri Allen

The Nurturer (Blue Note, 1991)

With Art Blakey

Feeling Good (Delos, 1986)

With Miles Davis

Amandla (1989)
Miles & Quincy Live at Montreux (1991)
Live Around the World (1996)

With Marcus Miller

The Sun Don't Lie (1993)
Tales (1995)
Live & More (1998)
M² (2001)
Panther/Live (2004)

With Mulgrew Miller

Hand in Hand (1992)

With Woody Shaw

Solid (Muse, 1986)

With Cedar Walton

Cedar Walton Plays (Delos, 1986)

Награды и номинации

1996 Won DownBeat Readers Poll Alto Saxophone
1997 Won DownBeat Readers Poll Alto Saxophone
1997 Won DownBeat Readers Poll Jazz Album of the Year Pursuance: The Music of John Coltrane
1997 Nominated Grammy Award Best Jazz Instrumental Performance Songbook
1998 Won DownBeat Readers Poll Alto Saxophone
1999 Won DownBeat Readers Poll Alto Saxophone
2006 Nominated Grammy Award Best Jazz Instrumental Album Beyond the Wall
2009 Won DownBeat Readers Poll Alto Saxophone
2010 Won DownBeat Readers Poll Alto Saxophone
2010 Won Grammy Award Best Jazz Instrumental Album Five Peace Band - Live
2012 Nominated Grammy Award Best Jazz Instrumental Album Seeds from the Underground
2012 Nominated Grammy Award Best Improvised Jazz Solo "J. Mac"
2012 Nominated NAACP Image Award Outstanding Jazz Album Seeds from the Underground
2012 Nominated Soul Train Award Best Traditional Jazz Artist/Group Seeds from the Underground
2012 Nominated Jazz Awards Alto Saxophonist of the Year
2012 Won Echo Award Saxophonist of the Year
2012 Won DownBeat Readers Poll Alto Saxophone
2013 Won DownBeat Readers Poll Alto Saxophone
2013 Nominated Grammy Award Best Jazz Instrumental Album Pushing the World Away