Kenny Garret won the 2022 Downbeat Critic’s Poll “Alto Saxophonist of the Year”. ALL ABOUT JAZZ claims, “Kenny Garrett is one of the most respected and frequently imitated saxophonists in the jazz world.”
2023 NEA Jazz Master, GRAMMY® Award-Winner & 8x-GRAMMY® Award Nominated Saxophonist & Composer KENNY GARRETT's illustrious career includes hallmark stints with Miles Davis, Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers, Donald Byrd, Freddie Hubbard, Woody Shaw and the Duke Ellington Orchestra, as well as a heralded 30+ year career as a solo artist. Garret has recorded albums with Miles Davis (5), Chick Corea (3), Freddie Hubbard (3), Donald Byrd (2), Roy Haynes (2), Marcus Miller (6) as well as with Christian McBride, Terrence Blanchard, Sting, Q-Tip, John Scofield, and countless others. Garret has also released 17 acclaimed albums as a Leader or Co-Leader with 12 of those albums reaching the Top 20 on Billboard's Jazz Album Chart. Garrett's latest release, 'Sounds from the Ancestors', was named one of the Top 50 albums of 2021 by NPR, and was selected as the 2021 Jazz Journalist Association "Album of the Year". Downbeat Magazine said Garrett's work on the album was "an extraordinary performance."