Keyon Harrold

Venue: Vancouver Playhouse

Vancouver International Jazz Festival presents Keyon Harrold: Foreverland and Songs for Miles

Keyon Harrold is a Grammy Award-winning trumpeter, vocalist, and producer hailed by Wynton Marsalis as “the future of the trumpet.” On Foreverland, a Grammy-nominated album that features crossover collaborations with Common, Robert Glasper, PJ Morton, and Laura Mvula, Keyon’s world-class band freestyles and solos across through the spectrum of African American music to create a brand of sonic expression that‘s been enthusiastically called “Bop Pop Hip-Hop Jazz!!!”.

Harrold first stepped into the international spotlight with his work as the trumpet voice in Don Cheadle’s Miles Davis biopic Miles Ahead, and his genre-defying career includes work with Beyoncé, Rihanna, Jeff Beck, and Keith Richards. Whether leading his powerhouse ensemble, performing with orchestras, or presenting special programs like Jazz and the Birth of Hip Hop, Harrold’s emotionally-charged compositions are in constant, thrilling variation, flowing from rock to hip-hop to classical piano and back again, glued together by Keyon’s bright, jazz-rooted melodic motifs.

Called “a scorching trumpeter” by the New York Times, Harrold’s current ensemble is making some of the strongest artistic statements of any musical group today.

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