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Marquis Hill, Rez Abbasi, Eric Alexander ...

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By NATE CHINEN • NOV 13, 2017
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 bandleader besides, at the helm of a group he calls the Blacktet. Originally from Chicago and now an adopted New Yorker, Hill has just announced a new EP, Meditation Tape, due out on Dec. 1. Featuring regular partners like drummer Makaya McCraven and bassist Junius Paul, the new music coasts on a cosmic-Afrocentric plane. Consider the lead single, which premieres here — a blissed-out groove odyssey that turns out to be the framework for some wisdom from an elder, the drummer Marvin “Bugalu” Smith. “I believe that the universe is reading your emotional content, and it responds to that,” he says. “The universe and us are the same.”

read more at: http://wbgo.org/post/universal-truths-and-heated-dialogue-marquis-hill-rez-abbasi-eric-alexander-more#stream/0

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