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Eddie Henderson: Celebrating Miles 
by Ken Dryden 

Eddie Henderson is 85, but the trumpeter still exhibits the energy and inventiveness that have always been part of his music. Introduced by his mother to Louis Armstrong at the Apollo Theater in Harlem, Eddie recalls, “He was the one who gave me my first trumpet lesson of how to make a sound on his trumpet and mouthpiece. I studied privately 
all through grammar school.”  
 
After moving to San Francisco, a new chapter unfolded in Eddie’s life, as he continued music studies at the San 
Francisco Conservatory of Music. His new stepfather was a physician who served visiting jazz musicians. That led 
to his meeting Miles. Eddie notes, “He stayed at my parents' house, because my stepfather was his physician 
whenever he came to town. I've known him ever since, following his career, records and musicality every step of the 
way.” When Miles was performing at the Black Hawk, Eddie explains, “He took me every night and that really 
almost changed the trajectory of my musical career.” 
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WALLACE RONEY JR. PUSHES LEGACY  

by Ronald E. Scott

Young trumpeter and composer Wallace Roney IV – fondly called Little Wally and Wallace Jr. by his family and close friends – would say he grew up in a relatively average household. He carries a name that arrives with both weight and wings. But inquisitive jazz enthusiasts would think otherwise after peering into the windows of his jazz castle: his mother, the legendary pianist and composer Geri Allen; his father, trumpet great and GRAMMY Award-winner Wallace Roney – the only trumpet player Miles Davis ever personally mentored, from 1985 until Miles' death in 1991.  He started on drums. Elvin Jones gave him his cymbals. Then one day – nobody quite remembers exactly when – you looked up and he was playing his father's trumpet.

"There was some pressure and expectations," says Wallace, reached by phone during an engagement in North Carolina. "But I came to the realization that legacy is good, and it will come as long as I'm doing justice to the music by playing the best I can. They would want me to carve my own path – which is what paying homage to my parents and Miles is about. Carrying on their legacy is doing things my way. I am paying homage to them every time I play because their music comes out of me whether I want it to or not."

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Kenny Garrett: The Preacher Still Has Sermons to Give 

by Chrys R | Hot House Jazz Magazine

When Kenny Garrett was fifteen years old, his trumpet teacher Marcus Belgrave called him a preacher. He did not understand it then. He does now.

"God gives everybody something, and everybody has something that's uniquely theirs," Garrett says during a recent conversation. "I take what's uniquely mine and try to make the best of it. That's all I try to do."

At a moment when jazz is in constant debate about its future, Garrett – alto saxophonist, composer, Grammy winner, and keeper of an extraordinary lineage – is less concerned with the argument than with the work. Sitting on 250 recordings over four decades, he remains one of the most consequential voices in the music, yet carries it all with the quiet urgency of a man who believes his best sermon is still ahead.

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Keyon Harold: One of Sixteen, One of One 

by Chrys R | Hot House Jazz Magazine

Keyon Harold grew up as one of sixteen children in Ferguson, Missouri, in a house where music was not a hobby - it was the air. His mother kept a big radio going at all hours and made regular runs to Big Lots, the discount store, returning home with jazz albums tucked under her arm like groceries. That's how a boy from Ferguson first heard Kind of Blue. That's how he found Birth of the Cool. That's how the trumpet found him.

"I was always championed by my siblings to keep going, keep practicing," he recalls. "People hit me up on Facebook to this day and tell me I owe them royalties for blowing up their ears."

Now a trumpeter, vocalist, songwriter, and producer - with a GRAMMY Award nomination for Forever Land, a Carnegie Hall debut on the horizon, and a role as creative advisor for Jazz St. Louis - Keyon carries all of that Ferguson soil with him every time he steps onto a stage. The lineage runs deep. His grandfather founded Lance's Drum and Bugle Corps in St. Louis, teaching music for free and, in his own way, saving lives. "Many were saved literally by going to drum corps practice," Keyon says. "They didn't get killed." The music traveled through the family's blood, and when it arrived in Keyon, it found its instrument.

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