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Trumpeter and composer Marquis Hill assembled an all-star band for New Gospel Revisited, due out on Edition next March. Its first single, "Law & Order," is a WBGO premiere.
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Jazz Night In AmericaHill may be a rising star of jazz trumpet, but it took a village of mentors, peers and other opportunities to enable him to grow. So Jazz Night went to Chicago to find out where he came from.
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Jazz's highest-profile competition recently crowned a new victor in a star-studded gala. But for the Thelonious Monk Institute, competition is only a small part of its desire to be back out West.
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Jazz stars aligned in mid-April when New York City was in full lockdown. The Checkout, with help from pianist Greg Spero, beamed-in some big name…
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It’s time to start making your plans.After all, the Winter Jazzfest is right around the corner — and its wild profusion of sounds and scenes can feel…
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Darrell Grant released Black Art, his first album on the Criss Cross label, in 1994. At the time he was the pianist in the Tony Williams Quintet, and…
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Myra Melford’s Snowy Egret, “Motion Stop Frame”Pianist and composer Myra Melford has long been a study in motion, creating and collaborating across a…
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Rising musician Caroline Davis may have a Ph.D. in matters of brain function (the cognitive science of music, to be precise) but her new album, Heart…
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Marquis Hill, “Coming Out Of The Universe”Marquis Hill emerged as a clarion new voice on trumpet several years ago, and then proved himself a great…