Kenny Garrett
Kenny Garrett ( born October 9, 1960 in Detroit ) is an American jazz saxophonist.
Life and work
Garrett grew up with jazz music - his father played tenor saxophone - and learned as a child, the saxophone; his instrument is the alto saxophone. During a guest appearance he was hired by the Duke Ellington Orchestra as a substitute saxophonist, he was then three and a half years as a member of the orchestra. In 1982 he went to New York City. There he played in bands with Freddie Hubbard and Woody Shaw with Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers. He became internationally known through the 1989 and 1990 albums released Amandla and Dingo, which he had recorded with trumpeter Miles Davis. As a result, there appeared a number of his own albums. He collaborated with guitarist Pat Metheny and John Scofield, pianist Mulgrew Miller and the Cornelius Claudio Kreusch and with bassist Charnett Moffett, with rock musicians such as Sting, Peter Gabriel and Bruce Springsteen and the rapper Guru. 1997, 2007 and 2012, he was nominated for a Grammy.
Discography
Albums under his own name
- Introducing Kenny Garrett ( Criss Cross, 1984)
- Garrett 5 ( Paddle Wheel / Bellaphon, 1984)
- Prisoner of Love (Atlantic, 1989)
- African Exchange Student (Atlantic, 1990)
- Black Hope ( Warner, 1992)
- Trilogy ( Warner, 1995)
- Pursuance: The Music of John Coltrane ( Warner, 1996)
- Songbook ( Warner, 1997)
- Simply Said ( Warner, 1999)
- Happy People ( Warner, 2002)
- Standard of Language ( Warner, 2003)
- Beyond the Wall ( Warner, 2006)
As a sideman
- Roy Haynes: Birds of a Feather: A Tribute to Charlie Parker ( Dreyfus, 2001)