The Poet, by Marquis Hill

The Poet

by Marquis Hill

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1.	Mary's Intro 02:04	buy track
2.	Return Of The Student 03:24	buy track
3.	Justin's Interlude 01:23	buy track
4.	B-Tune 04:07	buy track
5.	Phase II 03:03	buy track
6.	Giovanna 01:52	buy track
7.	Nouvelle Orleans 04:12	buy track
8.	Josh's Interlude 00:48	buy track
9.	The Poet 04:34	buy track
10.	The Color Of Fear 06:08	buy track
11.	Vella 05:54	buy track
12.	The Indicator 01:42	buy track
13.	Marquis's Interlude 00:49	buy track
14.	Again Never 01:46	buy track
15.	Legends Outro 02:57	buy track

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'The Poet is rather a misnomer. There’s poetry on the album, but only on the very short opening and closing tracks. Calling it The Composer might have been more on point, since it’s really the superlative tunes of Chicago trumpeter-bandleader Marquis Hill that are his third disc’s lifeblood.

So much so, in fact, that while Hill employs his seven-piece Blacktet on The Poet, he allots them little room for improvisation. The longest of the 15 tracks, “The Color of Fear” and “Vella,” both clock in at around six minutes; the latter has the album’s longest (and best) solo, a clear-toned volley by Hill that lasts all of a minute and a half. (Hill, vibraphonist Justin Thomas and pianist Josh Moshier also get brief tracks, listed as “interludes,” to improvise without accompaniment.) These and other excellent solos-Thomas plays a beautiful thematic one on “Nouvelle Orleans,” and alto saxophonist Christopher McBride stuns with a low-register romance on “Again Never”-but they are not the point. As if to underscore this, one track, “The Indicator,” fills its entire middle section with maddeningly repetitive vamps.

But what treasures await in the compositions themselves. Hill excels at two techniques: piecing catchy themes together into a cohesive statement and using phrases from those melodies to punctuate the solo sections. The most effective example is in the title track: The horns interject thematic licks into the brief solos by Moshier and bassist Joshua Ramos; then, the final third of the track changes direction entirely, from a gymnastic 6/8 to a slow, haunting 4/4. The Poet shows Hill to be a formidable talent.' - Jazz Times

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released October 22, 2013

Marquis Hill - Trumpet; Christopher McBride - Alto Saxophone; Justin Thomas - Vibraphone; Josh Moshier - Piano; Joshua Ramos - Bass; Makaya McCraven - Drums; Juan Pastor - Percussion

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Marquis Hill New York, New York

Award-winning trumpeter, composer, and bandleader Marquis Hill is a highly skilled jazz musician with a bent toward soulful post-bop. A native Chicagoan, Hill earned his B.A. in music education and jazz studies from Northern Illinois University and his master's degree in jazz pedagogy from DePaul University. He has played with such artists as Roy Hargrove, McCoy Tyner, and many more. ... more

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