Kenny Garrett & Avishai Cohen in Marciac

Kenny Garrett is an American jazz saxophonist and composer, born in Detroit in 1960. Known principally for his alto saxophone playing, he has recorded albums including Pursuance: The Music of John Coltrane, Songbook, Seeds from the Underground and Sounds from the Ancestors; “Sing a Song of Song” and “Happy People” are among his signature compositions. In 1978, he joined the Duke Ellington Orchestra under Mercer Ellington and toured with the ensemble. He later worked in Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers before joining Miles Davis’s band in 1987, where he remained for five years. He subsequently took his own groups into jazz clubs, theatres and festivals. His work as a bandleader has reached Jazz à Vienne in France and the North Sea Jazz Festival in Rotterdam.

Avishai Cohen is an Israeli double bassist, composer and vocalist, born in 1970. He plays contemporary jazz informed by bebop and Middle Eastern musical traditions, and is known for albums including Adama, Continuo, Gently Disturbed and Seven Seas. In the late 1990s, Cohen toured as a member of Chick Corea’s Origin and New Trio. He later established his own touring ensembles, often centered on double bass, piano and drums, and documented one of those groups in New York on the concert album As Is... Live at the Blue Note.