Kenny Garrett
Kenny Garrett (born October 9, 1960) is a Grammy Award-winning American post-bop jazz saxophonist and flautist who gained fame in his youth as a member of the Duke Ellington Orchestra and of Miles Davis's band. He has since pursued a successful solo career and has been described as "The most important alto saxophonist of his generation" by the Washington City Paper and "One of the most admired alto saxophonists in jazz after Charlie Parker" by The New York Times.
Biography
Kenny Garrett was born in Detroit, Michigan, on October 9, 1960; he is a 1978 graduate of Mackenzie High School. His father was a carpenter who played tenor saxophone as a hobby. Garrett's own career as a saxophonist took off when he joined the Duke Ellington Orchestra in 1978, then led by Duke's son, Mercer Ellington. Three years later he played in the Mel Lewis Orchestra, playing the music of Thad Jones, and also the Dannie Richmond Quartet, focusing on Charles Mingus's music.
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ALBUMS
- Pushing the World Away released: 2013
- Seeds From the Underground released: 2012
- Beyond the Wall released: 2006
- Dreyfus Night in Paris released: 2003
- Standard of Language released: 2003
- Happy People released: 2002
- Old Folks released: 1999
- Simply Said released: 1999
- Songbook released: 1997
- Pursuance: The Music of John Coltrane released: 1996
- Triology released: 1995
- Stars & Stripes / Live released: 1994
- Black Hope released: 1992
- African Exchange Student released: 1990
- Garrett 5 released: 1989
- Prisoner of Love released: 1989
- Moon Alley released: 1986
- Introducing Kenny Garrett released:
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Concrete
by: Bill AndersonCONCRETE
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« © '75 Stallion Music »
To a boy who grew up walking in the woods and the fields of South Carolina
This big ole city feels hard underneath my feet
And to a kid who ain't never heard a noise a whole lot louder than a freight train
I get scared sometimes just standing here along the street
Concrete concrete everywhere I turn there's concrete
Found in the pavement day after day I wanna go home
Where the sun shines and the tall pines and the earth and the heavens meet
I'd rather starve on a poor dirt farm than to stay here surrounded by the concrete
Cause it's turnin' me into concrete
My kids ain't never gone wadin' in a creek or cuttin' down cane for fishing
They've never seen a blackberry growin' wild
Sometimes I get to missin' it so I almost take to crying
I'm cursed with the body of a man and the heart of a child
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