Kenny Garrett
American jazz musician and composerWikipedia
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Oct 8, 2026
Ray The JazzmanHOST
Eighth, we got Pepper Adams.
Ray The JazzmanHOST
Ninth, we got Kenny Garrett, Yusef Lateef, and Chuchu Valdez.
Herman Hollywood DawkinsHOST
My goodness.
Herman Hollywood DawkinsHOST
[laughs]
Taylor EigstiGUEST
And I thought it was really interesting 'cause it just made me think about, you know, how important it is to savor those moments, you know, and, and experiences that, yeah, I cherish that.
Taylor EigstiGUEST
The opportunity to play with Kenny Garrett, they, even just that one time, I was like, man, I will always remember the feeling of how cool that was, you know? And, and any of those other experiences and stuff.
Taylor EigstiGUEST
I think it's, I think it, um, it's a way of being grateful and honoring the moment to just, like, appreciate it and stuff, I think.
Taylor EigstiGUEST
Um, 'cause, you know, also the alternative is always living in that mentality of, you know, kinda what I was talking about earlier, where it's like you're always waiting for that next thing.
Bobby BroomHOST
Now let's move on to drummer Lenny White, who I had the pleasure of reconnecting with that evening.
Bobby BroomHOST
Here he is with Kenny Garrett at the alto sax, Tom Brown trumpet, Michael Urbaniak violin, and John Dryden keyboards on Cannonball Adderley's sack of woe.
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Bobby BroomHOST
That's drummer Lenny White from an album he did in 1994 called Urbanator, and that's Cannonball Adderley's Sack of Woe.
Bobby BroomHOST
Lenny and I have known each other for quite some time, but one of my fondest memories is of a tour we did in the early 80s.
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Bobby BroomHOST
Welcome back to Jazz Spectrum.
Bobby BroomHOST
You just heard Clifton Anderson, trombonist, Sonny Rollins' nephew, and long-standing side man in Sonny's latter groups with And So We Carry On from Clifton's album of the same name.
Bobby BroomHOST
And featured on that track were Warren Wolf at the vibraphone and Kenny Garrett at the soprano saxophone on that one.
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Clifton and I spent
Elmo LovanoHOST
Okay, so in 1988 you do your first album as a leader, and, uh, you debut with Arcane.
Elmo LovanoHOST
But already you already have, like, Kenny Garrett and, and Joe Henderson [laughs] and, like, you already-
Cindy Blackman SantanaGUEST
[laughs]
Elmo LovanoHOST
... are surrounded by so many great people, let alone, then you do a, you have a whole run of respected jazz albums: Code Red, Telepathy, The Oracle, and now y- and now you're playing with Ron Carter.
Peter MartinHOST
No, that's, that's so, that's more than valid, for sure.
Peter MartinHOST
I was just thinking Song Book by Kenny Garrett.
Adam ManessHOST
Oh, that's a great call.
Peter MartinHOST
Like-
speaker_2HOST
After that we will turn to Joy Inside My Tears, which we're going to hear in a rendition by Marcus Miller, who created a medley of that song with another Stevie Wonder milestone, even though not one from Songs in the Key of Life, Visions.
speaker_2HOST
This medley appears on Markus Miller's 1995 album Tales and features Kenny Garrett.
speaker_2HOST
But first, Isn't She Lovely? as performed by Max Ionata and Adam Moroni.
speaker_2HOST
No.
Peter MartinHOST
Right.
Adam ManessHOST
You know what would be a good one to do is, uh, Songbird, uh, Kenny, Kenny Garrett's Songbird.
Peter MartinHOST
Oh, nice.
Adam ManessHOST
That'd be a great track for track.
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Peter MartinHOST
Yes.
Peter MartinHOST
Oh, this is a great record.
Adam ManessHOST
Cartoons and Kenny Beats.
Adam ManessHOST
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Justin BrownGUEST
will truly show you the way
Stacey HoodHOST
yeah yeah yeah what when you when you went out you went out with um kenny garrett and josh roseman right
Justin BrownGUEST
yes sir
Stacey HoodHOST
yeah how what was uh how what was your feelings were you scared were you just like i'm gonna do this
Justin BrownGUEST
um no i wasn't scared you know it was it was just yeah it was more so like yeah this is these are opportunities for me to see the world within my craft, you know? So sometimes you got to jump off the cliff and land in water, you know?
Stacey HoodHOST
Yeah, right.
Justin BrownGUEST
Even though it is intimidating a bit to play with Kenny Garrett, in a sense, due to the lineage of drummers, great drummers he's played with, you know? And Josh Roseman was composing music that, exposing me to music that I hadn't even, you know, had in my system, you know, as far as if we talk about genre and stuff like that.
Justin BrownGUEST
But yeah, these were guys who essentially made me feel safe in the not going the Juilliard route because I was getting a more personal experience from them.