Artist:Kenny Garrett
Song:Pressing The Issue
Album:Triology
Kenny Garrett is one of today's top jazz sax players. Of course he's heavily influenced by John Coltrane and he served an apprenticeship with Miles Davis. He was born Oct. 9, 1960 in Detroit. His carpenter father played sax in his spare time and taught Kenny the sax at an early age. While in high school, he studied with trumpeter Marcus Belgrave and started performing in the Duke Ellington Orchestra under the direction of Mercer Ellington. He decided to skip college and went on the road with them. He moved to New York in 1982 and now lives in New Jersey. He recorded as a sideman in the 80s but his big break came with the Miles Davis band of that era and he toured with Miles for most of the 80s. Kenny Garrett has recorded for Warner Bros. since 1992. Triology is a 1995 album with either Kiyoshi Kitagawa or Charnett Moffett on bass and Brian Blade on drums. Garrett said he wanted to explore trio formats at the time. He writes some of his own songs but Pressing The Issue was written by pianist Mulgrew Miller when he was in Woody Shaw's band in the 70s. Garrett's latest CD Beyond The Wall was released in Aug. 2006. Jazz fans should check him out. Here's Kenny Garrett performing Left Alone with Junko Onishi, Chris Thomas & Brian Blade in the Blue Note in Tokyo Oct. 22, 1991.
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