First time on vinyl for this 2008 album by saxophonist Kenny Garrett that features the free/spiritual jazz great Pharoah Sanders. Regular weight red coloured vinyl with foil stamped numbers.
How does one follow up a recording of such powerful inspiration, preparation and execution that critics and fans alike are still shouting its praises more than two years later? That might have been the question that saxophonist supreme Kenny Garrett faced following his "poll vaulting" and multiple-award nominated 2006 release, Beyond the Wall. But, trust, it was not a dilemma for Kenny Garrett.
Garrett, like all of the other great musicians and artists that came before him, just keeps moving forward in still another of his many creative directions. The latest of those ideas became Sketches of MD, a capricious excursion into open-ended melodies over grooves that each reflect the artistry of key sidemen from Miles Davis' many groups - from John Coltrane to Kenny himself. Consisting of five compositions (and clocking in at just under an hour), Sketches of MD is a compositionally relaxed yet performance intense record of some music Kenny performed at the Iridium Jazz Club in New York City with his band (Benito Gonzales on piano, Nat Reeves on bass, and Jamire Williams on drums) and special guest, tenor saxophone legend Pharoah Sanders.