{"id":4481,"date":"2013-02-21T15:53:39","date_gmt":"2013-02-21T23:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=4481"},"modified":"2013-02-22T00:01:40","modified_gmt":"2013-02-22T08:01:40","slug":"a-jazz-festival-moment-kenny-garrett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2013\/02\/a-jazz-festival-moment-kenny-garrett\/","title":{"rendered":"A Jazz Festival Moment: Kenny Garrett"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Kenny-Garrett.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Kenny-Garrett.jpg\" alt=\"Kenny Garrett\" width=\"120\" height=\"130\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4482\" \/><\/a>In a Portland Jazz Festival conversation this morning, host Devin Philips asked his fellow saxophonist Kenny Garrett to watch a video of himself and comment on it. The performance was 16 years ago at the Montreux, Switzerland, festival. Pianist Kenny Kirkland, bassist Nat Reeves and drummer Jeff \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Tain\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Watts were the rhythm section. Garrett and the audience of festival-goers and Portland State University music students watched as he played several dozen choruses of John Coltrane\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Giant Steps.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Phillips led into the screening by telling Garrett that after he saw the video the first time, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I wanted to crush my horn.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"440\" height=\"355\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3W_bRtc75GA?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><p>When his 1997 self had faded to black, Garrett turned back to the packed hall and said, I think I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d better practice more. I was trying to rise above myself. Hopefully, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll get there.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>His 2013 quartet will play tonight in a PDX concert that has been sold out for days. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a Portland Jazz Festival conversation this morning, host Devin Philips asked his fellow saxophonist Kenny Garrett to watch a video of himself and comment on it. The performance was 16 years ago at the Montreux, Switzerland, festival. Pianist Kenny Kirkland, bassist Nat Reeves and drummer Jeff \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Tain\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Watts were the rhythm section. Garrett and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4481","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}