Kenyatta Beasley

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Kenyatta Beasley (* 1976 ) is an American jazz and studio musician ( trumpet , flugelhorn , composition ) of the postbop , who also works as a film composer .

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Beasley appeared in the musical Satchmo: America's Musical Legend at the age of nine , in which he played the young Louis Armstrong . He later attended the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts , where he had lessons from Wynton and Branford Marsalis , Harry Connick, Jr., and Terence Blanchard . He came to New York City in 1994 to study at Mannes College of Music , where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in Jazz Composition and Performance. In New York he worked as a session musician with stars like Lauryn Hill ( The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill , 1998), Shakira , Wyclef Jean , Fantasia, Chaka Khan , Wu-Tang Clan , P. Diddy , Usher , Carlos Santana , Gloria Gaynor and Gladys Knight . He has also appeared on radio and television shows such as American Idol , Saturday Night Live , The Today Show , MTV ’s TRL and in the presentation of the Latin Billboard Awards.

The first recordings in the field of jazz were made in 1996 with the Oliver Lake String Project ( Movement, Turns & Switches ). In 2016, Beasley released his debut album, Brooklyn Mardi Gras + 1 (What's New Records), which he recorded with Teodross Avery , Casey Benjamin (alto saxophone), Robert Glasper , Brandon Owens (bass) and Marcus Baylor (drums). In the same year he led his own sextet, which included Mark Gross , Keith Loftis (tenor saxophone), Vincent Gardner , Anthony Wonsey , Dezron Douglas and Alvester Garnett (drums). Beasley is currently studying film composition at New York University with Sonny Kompaneck ; As part of his studies, he wrote the score for the short film Earnie , which won the First Run Film Festival as best original score and was also a finalist at the Sundance Festival . This was followed by the score for Get Rich or Die Tryin ' (with the assistance of Quincy Jones ) and Heroes Wanted .

In the field of jazz, he was involved in eleven recording sessions between 1996 and 2014. a. with Teodross Avery, Frank Foster 's Loud Minority Big Band , Eric Wyatt and Jeff Tain Watts .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Year of birth according to tower.jp
  2. ↑ a b Kenyatta Beasley. Smalls, February 13, 2019, accessed February 13, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed February 13, 2019)
personal data
SURNAME Beasley, Kenyatta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician (trumpet)
DATE OF BIRTH 1976