The Kenny Garrett Quintet - Live at Jazz en Tête Festival / director, Guillaume Dero ; Mark Whitfield, Rudy Bird, Ameen Saleem, Kenny Garrett, Vernell Brown Jr.

[Place of publication not identified] : Huit Production, 2021.

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"This magnificent concert by Kenny Gett illustrates a few themes of his album The Sounds Of The Ancestors whose spirit the artist described as: "sounds that lift the spirit." And Kenny Garrett carves his place with elegance, sensitivity and intelligence in the continuity of the history of jazz. A little anecdote: During a Parisian concert in 1990, Miles Davis, in his broken voice, whispered in Kenny Garrett's ear: "this night is yours;" proof if there is any of the confidence that the leader had in the young alto saxophonist he had recruited from Art Blakey's The Jazz Messengers. And as we can confirm, Kenny Garrett retains the polyrhythmic beat of the Davisian school. If one notes, here and there, influences of Pharoah Sanders or McCoy Tyner, it is mainly the memorial presence of John Coltrane which imposes itself to the extent that Kenny Garrett seems to share his spiritual quest. The history of jazz continues to be written with Hargrove, the second title of the set, which is obviously a tribute to the trumpeter Roy Hargrove who left us too soon and ""who borrowed, as Kenny Garrett points out, from all the genres."" Art's Sake is both a reference to the music of West Africa and a tribute to the great drummers Art Blakey and Tony Allen. Following in the footsteps of Miles Davis and Roy Hargrove, "Happy People," the song that closes the concert, indulges in the R&B grooves of Detroit, his hometown, and rap beats. Philippe Lesage".

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June 21, 2023

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