Garrett

Garrett began studying jazz on upright bass and bass

guitar starting at a young age. He gained experience

coming up in the renowned music program of Hall High

School, and the local Hartford, CT jazz scene.

In 1996, Garrett was selected to join the National

Grammy In The Schools Jazz Program, an honor awarded

to only 40 people.



From 1996 - 1999 Garrett attended the New England

Conservatory in Boston where he studied with jazz

greats: Cecil McBee, Bob Moses, and Danilo Perez and

graduated with a Jazz Performance Diploma.

In addition, Garrett was selected for the prestigious

Thelonious Monk School: Jazz at Aspen summer program

in 1997.



Shortly after arriving in Boston Garrett formed the

Miracle Orchestra with fellow music school peers. For

5 years the Miracle Orchestra toured the country

gaining a devoted national fan base, while also

maintaining a solid local following, earning them

accolades such as Boston Magazines Best of Boston

"Best Local Jazz Group". The Miracle Orchestra sold

out numerous shows at their local haunt The House of

Blues in Boston as well as the legendary Wetlands in

New York City. The Miracle Orchestra released two

studio albums: "Coalescence" and "Forks Bends &

Spoons", and a live album: "Live Vol. 1".



Garrett was a founding member of the award-winning

jazz ensemble Dead Cat Bounce led by Matthew Steckler,

who were voted Boston’s Best Local Jazz Act at the

2002 Boston Music Awards, and were winner of Boston

Phoenix Best Music Poll 2001 and 2002 also in the

category of Best Local Jazz Act. Garrett performed

with Dead Cat Bounce between 1996 and 2002 and

released two albums with them: "Lucky By Association"

and "Legends of the Nar" (Chonsky).



Between '99 and '01 Garrett performed with Bob Moses'

Mozamba, along with Sam Kininger and Neil Evans

(Soulive) and (DJ) Mr. Rouke. Mozamba performed at

several festivals including an opening set at Phish's

Oswego festival.



In 2002 Garrett joined the Boulder, CO based group The

Motet and toured the country playing over 250 shows

and festivals per year. In 2006 The Motet played in

front of an estimated 10,000 people at Bonnaroo and

shortly there after Bass Player Magazine wrote a

feature profile about Garrett in October, 2006. In

2007 the Motet performed one special gig with

Christian McBride where Garrett and Christian traded

bass lines and solos throughout the night, a career

highlight. Garrett has released two albums with the

Motet: "Music for Life" and "Instrumental Dissent", and still actively tours with the band.



In 2006, Garrett had the great honor of subbing for Kai Eckhardt in his band Garaj Mahal alongside Fareed Haque, Eric Levy, and Alan Hertz.



After performing several times with keyboard wizard Kyle Hollingsworth (String Cheese Incident), he asked Garrett in 2007 to join a new project called Soleside featuring Speech (Arrested Developement), DJ Logic, and Chief Excel (Blackalicious).



Garrett has been a full time member of the Kyle Hollingsworth Band since he contributed to Kyle's album "Then There's Now" (SCI Fidelity 2009). KHB has been touring the states since Summer 2009.



Garrett performed with the Marco Benevento Trio in the summer of 2009, subbing for bassist Reed Mathis.



Garrett toured throughout 2009 with Marcus Eaton, and has released two albums with him: "Story of Now" (2006) and "As If You Had Wings" (2010)



Between the Fall of 2007 and spring of 2009 Garrett toured the States, Europe and Japan with Koch recording artist and Grammy nominee Dwele. Garrett recently appeared on Dwele's latest release: "Wants.World.Women." on the track "My People" (Koch 2010).



In 2010-11 you can catch Garrett with.

The Motet, Kyle Hollingsworth Band, Magicgravy, Supercollider, Ayo Awosika, Reed Feohl, Jalbatross, Jennifer Hartswick, Everyone Orchestra, and Fareed Haque.



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