Trumpetist

An inventive, multidisciplinary, genre-fluid artist; trumpeter and vocalist; a composer, arranger, and platinum music producer; bandleader and major recording artist (The Mugician-Sony "The Mugician") and currently with Concord Jazz

Keyon Harrold Quintet

Dearborn Station

Award-winning trumpeter, vocalist, songwriter, and producer Keyon Harrold is touring in support of Grammy-nominated recording, 2024’s Foreverland. This crossover album features a bevy of collaborators. These include British R&B vocalist Laura Mvula, emerging young singer Malaya, Common, Robert Glasper and PJ Morton.

Keyon Harrold

Dakota

Keyon Harrold ‘Foreverland’

Hart Plaza

Summer’s biggest party is back—now with a new partner! Since 1979, the two-day jazz festival has been a summer staple for adventurous listeners and fun-loving music fans in Los Angeles. In our first season with the Blue Note Jazz Club, you can go far out with jazz heroes like Lakecia Benjamin (whose Coltrane album you have to hear) or Joe Lovano’s excellent improv group the Paramount Quartet. NEA Jazz Master Dee Dee Bridgewater teams up with Grammy-winning pianist Bill Charlap, brass band royalty The Soul Rebels bring a little of that NOLA second-line spirit, and trumpeter Keyon Harrold shows why he was chosen to play Miles Davis’ parts in the Don Cheadle film Miles Ahead.

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Blue Note Jazz Festival

Hollywood Bowl

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.

Jazz Showcase

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.

Keyon Harrold Presents Foreverland

California State University, Long Beach

Award-winning trumpeter, vocalist, songwriter, and producer Keyon Harrold will be touring in support of a new recording Foreverland, released on January 19, 2024, on the Concord label. This is an outstanding crossover album with features a bevy of collaborators. British R&B vocalist Laura Mvula sings on the title track “Foreverland.” Emerging young singer Malaya is featured on “Don't Lie.” Common and Robert Glasper contribute to the song “Find Your Peace,” and GRAMMY-winning musician, producer, and singer-songwriter PJ Morton lends a wistful vocal to the nostalgic single “Beautiful Day.”

Keyon Harrold Presents “Foreverland” feat. PJ Morton

Jimmy Lyons Stage

A group of stellar instrumentalists and fusion-era Miles Davis alumni come together as Miles Electric Band, a multi-generational group specializing in the wired-up and funky music Davis created from the late 1960s to the ‘80s on albums including Bitches Brew and You’re Under Arrest.

Miles Electric Band

SFJAZZ Center

Artist Seminar with Keyon Herrold presented as part of the 53rd Annual Jazz Seminar and Concerts Week.

Artist Seminar: Keyon Harrold

University of Pittsburgh

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.

Blue Note Jazz Club

KDTU has electrified audiences around the world from the fields of Naeba in Japan at the infamous Fuji Rock Festival to the hallowed stage of Madison Square Garden where they previously joined the Dave Matthews Band and The Godfather of Soul, James Brown.  From performing as Sexual Chocolate (Karl was in the original band in the movie Coming To America and its sequel) at the Outside Lands Music festival in San Francisco, to being the first late night act at the inaugural Bonnaroo festival, KDTU have been a dominating force in music for the past 25 years.

Karl Denson Project with Keyon Harrold, James Francies, Burniss Earl Travis & Blaque Dynamite

This night is inspired by Miles Davis’s landmark late 50s and early 60s large group collaboration with arranger Gil Evans that yielded four orchestral jazz classics including the seminal 1960 album Sketches of Spain, along with Porgy & Bess, Miles Ahead, and Quiet Nights.

Trumpetist

Keyon Harrold

Events

Upcoming events

Mar 20, 2026

Sketches of Miles · San Francisco Jazz

Past events

13 - 16 Nov, 2025

Keyon Harrold Quintet · Jazz Showcase

Sep 15, 2025

Keyon Harrold · Dakota

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