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Keyon Harrold at Blue LLama Jazz Club

Courtesy of Dave Sharp | Posted on January 16, 2020

Where

Blue LLama Jazz Club
314 S. Main St
Ann Arbor, MI
Map
734-372-3200

Keyon Harrold at Blue LLama Jazz Club

When

Sat, March 7, 2020
7:00 pm

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Musicians

About

Keyon Harrold was born and raised in Ferguson, MO, the St. Louis suburb that tore into America’s national consciousness in 2014 with the police shooting of Michael Brown and the bitter protests and riots that followed. While Ferguson looms large in Harrold’s album The Mugician, it examines our troubled times through a far wider lens than any one tragedy. Sweeping and cinematic, the music draws on elements of jazz, classicval, rock, blues, and hip hop to create something uniquely modern, unmistakably American. Guests including Pharoahe Monch, Gary Clark, Jr., Big K.R.I.T., Guy Torry, Georgia Anne Muldrow and Robert Glasper add to the record’s eclectic nature, but it ultimately triumphs as a unified, cohesive whole both because of Harrold’s virtuosic skill as a trumpeter and songwriter and because of his relentlessly optimistic belief in brighter days to come....

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