With special guests Malaya and Stout

“Keyon Harrold is the future of the trumpet”- Downbeat Magazine

Jazz trumpeter Keyon Harrold returns to the Carpenter Center for a dazzling performance featuring evocative selections from his new album Foreverland. An inventive, multidisciplinary, genre-fluid artist (he cites Radiohead, Fleet Foxes, Fela Kuti, and John Coltrane as influences), the trumpeter has toured and recorded with Jay-Z, Beyoncé, and Cirque Du Soleil, and contributed all of the trumpet playing in Don Cheadle’s Grammy-winning Miles Davis biopic Miles Ahead.

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About Keyon Harrold
Keyon Harrold is an inventive, multidisciplinary, genre-fluid artist, trumpeter, vocalist, composer, arranger, and platinum music producer, as well as bandleader and major recording artist (The Mugician-Sony) and currently with Concord Jazz.

Musically, Harrold lives by the notion that the only thing that identifies a genre is its beat. That belief has allowed Harrold to tear down the walls of the genre to roam music freely. There are only 12 notes, so he pours his soul into every musical situation, be it performing live, recording, or composing for television and film.

“Keyon Harrold carries a natural swagger that is not misplaced: he’s a compelling communicator and commanding trumpeter. The magic of his performance is the accomplishment of a quintet that resonates as both accomplished and raw, the seeking of new challenges…” — Love Supreme Festival

Harrold’s career is a spectrum of greatness. From touring and recording with Jay-z and Cirque Du Soleil to being signed by legendary Rapper Nas (Mass Appeal) and writing the theme song for The Queen Latifah’s Show. Harrold is also a first-call artist with feature credits with Keith Richards, Black Pumas, Mac Miller (Stay), Nas (The Jarreau of Rap), and Harrold’s latest collaboration with UK crooner Samm Henshaw (Still Broke). Keyon is a frequent collaborator with YEBBA, Robert Glasper, Maxwell, Common, PJ Morton, and Gregory Porter.

Harrold is also the Artistic Advisor for Jazz St.Louis and an activist for social justice and equality.