MARQUIS HILL COMPOSERS COLLECTIVE *live

In the organizer's words:

Marquis Hill, award-winning trumpeter, composer and bandleader from Chicago, transcends the boundaries between genres. Contemporary and classical jazz, hip-hop, R&B, Chicago house, neo-soul - for Hill they are all essential elements of the deep African-American creative heritage of which he is a part - he also calls it the African continuum.

His new album "Composers Collective: Beyond the Jukebox" celebrates the compositions of others. Inspired by the Blue Note days, when the label's own works were recorded alongside those of other musicians, he asked friends and colleagues to compose especially for him.

In addition to six of his own compositions, the album contains works by Ernest Dawkins, Gary Bartz, Jeff Parker, Marcus Strickland, SABA, Geof Bradfield and Matt Gold as well as Hill's core quintet: vibraphonist Joel Ross, pianist Michael King, bassist Junius Paul and drummer Corey Fonville."

Composers Collective" continues the path taken on his previous albums of blending elements of post-bop and contemporary jazz with R&B, hip-hop and other styles to create a pan-musical vision that recognizes all black music as one big picture.

Marquis Hill began playing drums at the age of four and later switched to trumpet. Hill earned his bachelor's degree in music education from Northern Illinois University and his master's degree in jazz education from DePaul University. During his studies, he played concerts and sessions throughout Chicago and jammed with Fred Anderson, Ernest Dawkins and Von Freeman, among others. In 2014, he won the Thelonious Monk International Trumpet Competition. He releases his music on his own label "Black Unlimited Music Group".

Hill's sound is unmistakable and at the same time a journey through the entire history of the jazz trumpet. It is reminiscent of the highly dramatic silence and space of Miles, the undeniable virtuosity of Clifford Brown and Freddie Hubbard and the groove-savvy phrasing of Lee Morgan and Donald Byrd, among others. And he goes beyond that.

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