KENNY GARRETT

Kenny Garrett: The Preacher Still Has Sermons to Give 

by Chrys R | Hot House Jazz Magazine

When Kenny Garrett was fifteen years old, his trumpet teacher Marcus Belgrave called him a preacher. He did not understand it then. He does now.

"God gives everybody something, and everybody has something that's uniquely theirs," Garrett says during a recent conversation. "I take what's uniquely mine and try to make the best of it. That's all I try to do."

At a moment when jazz is in constant debate about its future, Garrett – alto saxophonist, composer, Grammy winner, and keeper of an extraordinary lineage – is less concerned with the argument than with the work. Sitting on 250 recordings over four decades, he remains one of the most consequential voices in the music, yet carries it all with the quiet urgency of a man who believes his best sermon is still ahead.

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