Kenny Brooks

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Kenny Brooks (born November 5, 1966 ) is an American jazz musician ( tenor saxophone ).

Live and act

Brooks began playing woodwind at the age of nine ; after graduating from El Cerrito High School in 1984 , he studied at the New England Conservatory with George Garzone , George Russell , Bob Moses and Ken Radnofsky at the age of 17 . After earning his bachelor's degree in 1988, he returned to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1989 .

In the early 1990s he worked there with the Peck Allmond Group, the Afro-Pop group Kotoja and with the drummer Eddie Marshall . In 1991 he founded the hip hop jazz band Alphabet Soup ; Co-leader was the pianist Dred Scott . With the band he performed in the San Francisco area, at both the Monterey and the San Francisco Jazz Festival. First recordings were made in 1991 with Dred Scott ( Small Clubs Are Dead ), in 1992 with his teacher Joe Henderson on Kitty Margolis ' album Evolution .

From 1994 Brooks played for three years with Charlie Hunter , whose band had an engagement in the Up and Down Club . In 1996 he worked on Hunter's album Natty Dread ( Blue Note ) and toured North America and Europe. In 1995 he led a trio with Eddie Marshall and Jeff Chambers . In 2002 he presented his self-produced album Off Shore , followed by Jetstream in 2005 .

Brooks made frequent appearances at the Monterey Jazz Festival in the 1980s and 90s, and he also made guest appearances at international festivals such as the North Sea Jazz Festival , Montreux , Istanbul , Copenhagen , Molde , Montreal , Vancouver, Calgary and Toronto. He has also worked on recordings for Mike Clark, Ohio Players , Steve Smith, Les Claypool, Josh Roseman , Bob Weir and Chuck MacKinnon . In the field of jazz, he was involved in 15 recording sessions between 1991 and 2008.

Discographic notes

  • Kenny Brooks Trio: Up & Down Club Sessions, Vol. 1 (Mammoth, 1993)
  • The Up & Down All-Stars: Up & Down Club Sessions, Vol. 2 (Mammoth, 1994), with Dred Scott, Charlie Hunter, Geoff Brennan , Josh Jones

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b entry (AllAboutJazz)
  2. ↑ a b Kenny Brooks. Smalls, November 30, 2018, accessed November 30, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Tom Lord The Jazz Discography (online, accessed November 29, 2018)
personal data
SURNAME Brooks, Kenny
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH 5th November 1966