NEA Jazz Master Kenny Garrett Quintet

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Newly named an NEA Jazz Master for 2023, Kenny Garrett and his swining quintet will go on a musical journey at Keystone Korner Baltimore for 3 nights, Friday-Sunday, June 30th-July 2nd! The NEA Jazz Masters Fellowship is the nation’s highest honor in jazz. Each year since 1982, the program has elevated to its ranks a select number of living legends who have made exceptional contributions to the advancement of jazz. 

With his illustrious career that includes hallmark stints with Miles Davis, Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers, Donald Byrd, Freddie Hubbard, Woody Shaw and the Duke Ellington Orchestra, as well as a heralded career as a solo artist that began more than 30 years ago, Kenny Garrett is easily recognized as one of modern jazz’s brightest and most influential living masters. And with the marvelous Sounds From The Ancestors, the GRAMMY® Award-winning Garrett shows no signs of resting on his laurels.

Kenny Garrett’s latest release, Sounds From The Ancestorsis a multi-faceted album. The music, however, doesn’t lodge inside the tight confines of the jazz idiom, which is not surprising considering the alto saxophonist and composer acknowledges the likes of Aretha Franklin and Marvin Gaye as significant touchstones. Similar to how Miles Davis’ seminal LP, On the Corner, subverted its main guiding lights – James Brown, Jimi Hendrix and Sly Stone – then crafted its own unique, polyrhythmic, groove-laden, improv-heavy universe, Sounds From The Ancestors occupies its own space with intellectual clarity, sonic ingenuity and emotional heft.

 

Keystone Korner Baltimore

1350 Lancaster Street Baltimore, MD 21231

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Ticket holders can call our box office Wednesday-Sunday at 410-946-6726 to check on seating options and availabilities. Best seating available for those who come earliest to the shows. Doors open at 5 pm from Wednesday-Saturday and at 4 pm on Sunday.