Kenny Garrett and Sounds From The Ancestors
Enjoy a very tasty and musical brew with Kenny Garrett.
Kenny Garrett comes to the Kongsberg Jazz Festival with a band that literally bursts with joy in playing and offers the audience a happy and rhythmically diverse music party.
The jazz public noticed Kenny Garrett already when he came out with his first record, Introducing Kenny Garrett(1984). But it wasn't just the audience that he made an impression on. He quickly became a sought-after accompanist, and he has had fruitful collaborative projects with a number of jazz's leading musicians, such as Chick Corea, Pat Metheny and Miles Davis. It is important to Garrett that his music should touch people's emotions, because as he says in an interview: "Whether we are playing a concert or in the studio, my goal is to create a feeling. If they can experience that feeling, my goal has been achieved." Kenny Garrett has never been afraid to let himself be influenced by many kinds of musical directions, and on his latest record, Sounds From The Ancestors, he presents a music in which he incorporates many types of dance music, from funk and hip-hop to rhythms and grooves from Brazil and Africa. The result is a very tasty, musical brew. This brew will be served at Energimølla during this year's jazz festival at Kongsberg!
Kenny Garrett, alto and tenor sax
Corcoran Holt, acoustic bass
Keith Brown, piano
Rudy Bird, percussion
Ronald Bruner, drums
