"Dazzle is a special place! I cannot wait to take the stage again. It’s been a few years, but we are ready to take Denver another mile higher! I’m excited to return with an incredible band, playing the music of Foreverland. We will find Peace, Go Outta Space to Foreverland, and it will be a Beautiful Day! See you soon."
~Keyon Harrold
“Each song has a harmony that evokes a mood,” Keyon says. “I invite you to live in this tonality with me. It’s not about a million notes a second; it’s about finding the right mood to open people’s chakras. The color of each mood gives me solace — it allowed me to reignite the hopes I had and begin digging out of a down period.”
Keyon Harrold is a “world-class trumpeter” (Essence) and composer. He’s a jazz musician in the most expansive sense, working with a list of dream collaborators: generational legends like Keith Richards and Diana Ross, rap stars like Mac Miller and Nas, neo-soul icons Erykah Badu and D’Angelo, and modern soul stars Black Pumas and Leon Bridges. His circle of regular collaborators is formidable, including his music industry mentor Common (who hired him for his first touring gig), his New School classmate Robert Glasper, and GRAMMY winners Maxwell, PJ Morton, Gregory Porter, and YEBBA.
There’s also his extensive touring and recording work with pop royalty, Jay-Z and Beyoncé. While it may seem lazy to compare Keyon to Miles Davis, the connection is more fitting than it might initially appear: Harrold contributed all of the trumpet playing for Don Cheadle’s GRAMMY-winning Miles Davis biopic Miles Ahead, perfectly matching Cheadle’s on-screen performances.
Foreverland is reflective, immediate, and uplifting. Keyon harnesses the raw expression of those original Vegas takes, creating a dreamy yet tactile landscape of sound. It provides the perfect canvas for his playing, his tone projecting a creamy clarity while navigating ambiguous waters with open-hearted hopefulness. “What I can offer as a musician who plays an instrument without words is an honest conveyance of emotion,” says Keyon. “Some of these notes, I play because there’s no better word.”
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