Marquis Hill, an award-winning trumpeter

Marquis Hill, an award-winning trumpeter, set for UC San Diego debut with his genre-leaping band

Trumpeter Marquis Hill will make his San Diego headlining debut at UC San Diego. (Photo by Deneka Peniston)

George Varga - Contact Reporter

In 2014, Chicago trumpeter Marquis Hill won the Thelonious Monk Institute Trumpet Competition, which included a $25,000 scholarship and an album contract with Concord Records.

Now 30, Hill has played in the Chicago Jazz Orchestra and in the bands of saxophonist Joe Lovano, former Miles Davis bassist Marcus Miller and other luminaries.

He also leads his own group, The Blacktet, with which he make his San Diego headlining debut tonight at the Loft@UC San Diego.


Hill stands out whether playing his own compositions — which draw from post-bop jazz, hard bop, hip-hop, spoken word and more — or his distinctively re-invented versions of jazz classics by Horace Silver, Donald Byrd and Herbie Hancock.

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