A Tribute to Carlos Garnett Panamanian

RIP to saxophonist Carlos Garnett, who passed away last night aged 84 in Panama. Garnett was born in Panama in 1938 and moved to Brooklyn NY USA in 1962, initially playing with rock and latin groups. In 1968, he was hired by Freddie Hubbard and in 1969 recorded on the album Soul Experiment. At this time, Hubbard introduced Garnett to other contemporaries in the jazz scene who were equally impressed by the young Panamanian firebrand, who secured gigs for himself with Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers, Charles Mingus, Andrew Hill and Roy Brooks, among others. Garnett would also secure himself a spot on some of the most radical and pertinent jazz output of the 20th Century, playing on Miles Davis’ genre bending albums On the Corner, Big Fun and Get Up With It, seminal albums in Davis’ electric years catalogue. At around the same time, Garnett would also write and perform with Norman Connors on his superb Buddah and Cobblestone albums Dark of Light, Dance of Magic and Slewfoot, the latter an album where he penned the propulsive session Mother of The Future, a perennial favourite dancefloor jazz cut.

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