Keyon Harrold

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Keyon Karim Harrold (born November 18, 1980 in Ferguson , Missouri ) is an American jazz musician ( trumpet , also vocals, composition ) who works across genres.

Live and act

Harrold grew up as one of 16 children in a family of musicians. He graduated from The New School in jazz . His major influences include Miles Davis , Prince , Common , Dr. Dre and J Dilla .

Harrold first played as a trumpeter with Common (on the recommendation of his fellow student Robert Glasper ). Charles Tolliver , who became his mentor, brought him into his big band ( With Love , 2006, Emperor March: Live at the Blue Note , 2007). Harrolds played in New York jazz clubs and as a studio musician for Jay-Z , Beyoncé , 50 Cent , Anthony Hamilton , Gregory Porter , Mary J. Blige , Otis Brown III and Mac Miller . He also toured with Michael Jackson , Rihanna , Eminem , Gregory Porter, D'Angelo , Maxwell and Mary J. Blige. He played the trumpet in the score for Don Cheadle's Miles Davis film Miles Ahead . The soundtrack to the film won a Grammy Award in 2017 .

His debut album under his own name, Introducing Keyon Harrold , was released in 2009 by Criss Cross . Allmusic praised the album and considered it “a good sign for its bright future” and it as a “leading jazz trumpeter of a new generation.” Another album under his own name, The Mugician , was released in 2017 and also received good reviews.

Harrold's game compared Down Beat to Freddie Hubbard 's. Wynton Marsalis once rated it as "the future of the trumpet". For Hessischer Rundfunk he sounds "like the late Miles [Davis] when he heated up his sound with current pop music intensities."

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Michael J. West Keyon Harrold: The Mugician (Legacy / Mass Appeal): Review of album from genre-bending trumpeter JazzTimes , November 28, 2017
  2. ↑ Kenya Vaughn: Matriarch Shirley Harrold speaks on sharing life with 16 children and 'about 70' grandkids . Accessed May 31, 2019.
  3. ↑ Experience That Unfiltered Awesomeness From Keyon Harrold . November 18, 2016. Accessed May 31, 2019.
  4. ↑ 5 Things We Learned about Keyon Harrold, The Musician Who Brought Miles Davis' Sound to the Big Screen . February 6, 2017. Accessed May 31, 2019.
  5. ↑ Meridee Duddleston: The Man Behind the Music in the 2017 Grammy-Winning Film About Miles Davis . February 13, 2017. Accessed May 31, 2019.
  6. ↑ Introducing Keyon Harrold at Allmusic (English). Accessed May 31, 2019.
  7. ^ DownBeat News . May 18, 2016. Accessed May 31, 2019.
  8. ↑ Keyon Harrold performs at Ronnie Scott's (hr-Jazz am Ferien, May 30, 2019)
personal data
SURNAME Harrold, Keyon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Harrold, Keyon Karim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician (trumpet, composition)
DATE OF BIRTH November 18, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Ferguson , Missouri