Marquis Hill, one of the most promising American jazz players, combines jazz with contemporary beats. Former band member of Marcus Miller. ‘A dauntingly skilled trumpeter’ (New York Times).

Trumpeter Marquis Hill leaves a great impression with the way he connects jazz to spoken word, hiphop and contemporary beats and breaks. In his Blacktet he plays with musicians from his native Chicago. These musicians can improvise on dazzling grooves, but they also translate standards and more obscure gems from jazz history to the present.

Marquis Hill is currently one of the most promising American jazz players. He topped the Downbeat Critics Poll 2016 in the Rising Star Trumpet category and he won the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Trumpet Competition 2014. He currently lives in New York. For three years he was part of the band of bass guitar legend Marcus Miller. At the BIMHUIS he has previously performed with drummer/producer Makaya McCraven.

‘The new music is calibrated with cool precision and delivered with calculated understatement, his trumpet playing filled with the mellifluous tones, cascading lines and outpourings of lyrical invention that have been stirring souls throughout the jazz world. The music also stirs the pot, layered as it is with anxious hiphop grooves and spokenword narratives that reflect the conditions Hill saw growing up—and, to a degree, still sees today—on the South Side of Chicago’ (Downbeat).

Braxton Cook altosaxophone, Marquis Hill trumpet, Junius Paul doublebass, Jonathan Pinson drums, Joel Ross piano & vibraphone

BIMHUIS | May 4 2019