This Summer, Jazz Is Dead and Grand Performances present Los Angeles’ unsung Chicano Jazz Legend, Garrett Saracho, in celebration of the 50 year anniversary of his 1973 masterpiece, En Medio, This will be the first time this album has ever been performed live in its entirety, one night only at Grand Performances.
Garrett Saracho is a fourth-generation Los Angeleno of San Carlos Apache and Mexican descent, with a recording output that spans genres, labels, and decades.
Garrett Saracho is a product of LA’s vital Jazz underground who went on to win a Frank Sinatra Music Award while at UCLA and later signed a record deal with Impulse! Records. After his first record, he decided to move on from a solo career as a musician. Almost 50 years later, Jazz Is Dead brought Garrett out to the studio to record new music with Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad. Garrett Saracho JID015, his first new album in the spotlight since his 1973 debut. Garrett will perform the iconic music of “En Medio”, along with outtakes, rarities, and brand new material at Grand Performances.
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