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Marquis Hill Blacktet at Bimhuis
Courtesy of Onno Beukenhorst | Posted on June 27, 2017
When
Fri, October 27, 2017
20:30
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Musicians
Marquis Hill
trumpetJosh Johnson
saxophone, altoJoel Ross
vibraphoneJeremiah Hunt
bassMakaya McCraven
drumsAbout
American trumpeter and rising star with an urgent contemporary sound. Winner of the Thelonious Monk Competition. ‘A dauntingly skilled trumpeter’ (New York Times).
Trumpeter Marquis Hill leaves a great impression with his album The Way We Play, on which he connects jazz to spoken word, hip-hop and contemporary beats and breaks. In his Blacktet he plays with musicians from his native Chicago, such as drummer and regular collaborator Makaya McCraven.
These musicians can improvise on dazzling grooves, as recorded on McCraven’s breakthrough album In the Moment, but they also translate standards to the present, from classics such as Maiden Voyage and Straight no Chaser, to more obscure compositions by Carmell Jones en Donald Byrd....