Three Keys to the Night: Kenny Garrett at Missy Lane’s
The Alto Giant — Detroit-bred NEA Jazz Master and GRAMMY winner, Garrett carries eight GRAMMY nominations to his name. A Miles Davis alum (front-line partner from ’87–’91), he’s also a perennial DownBeat poll topper on alto sax—arriving with that unmistakable bite and lyric fire.
Ancestor Energy — Expect deep-pocket grooves and call-and-response lifted from his acclaimed album Sounds from the Ancestors—a project that won the 2022 NAACP Image Award (Outstanding Jazz Album—Instrumental) and was named the Jazz Journalists Association’s 2021 “Album of the Year.” When Garrett leans into the polyrhythms, the room levitates.
Intimate Voltage — A pedigree that runs through the Duke Ellington Orchestra (Mercer Ellington), Art Blakey, Woody Shaw, and Freddie Hubbard before the Miles era—Garrett’s band turns small rooms into pressure cookers: ecstatic peaks, tender whispers, and a second set that smokes.