Marquis Hill: New Gospel Revisited

Rating: ★★★

Record and Artist Details

Musicians:

Kendrick Scott
Walter Smith III
Harish Raghavan (b)
James Francies (p)
Marquis Hill (t)
Joel Ross (vb)

Label:

Edition Records EDNCD/LP 1190

April/2022

Media Format:

CD, LP, DL, cassette

RecordDate:

Rec. December 2019

A decade into his career following a dozen recordings as leader, the trumpeter-composer Marquis Hill decided a few years ago to breathe new life into the one that started it all, his 2011 Chicago-based Blacktet’s debut release New Gospel. The sequel New Gospel Revisited was recorded live pre-Covid at Constellation, a mainstay of the Chicago jazz club scene. Hill assembled a sextet for the task made up of some of the most hip contemporary jazzers currently residing in New York. They perform the attractively sassy themes that the 2014 Thelonious Monk Institute trumpet award-winner had composed for the original recording, compositions that draw from neo-soul, R&B and latin-fusion as well as acoustic jazz rooted in modal-era Hancock and mid-late sixties period free bop through to more advanced mainstream movements. Hill’s music here is an update on that continuum especially where rhythm is concerned with Kendrick Scott’s hard-driving post-hip hop polyrhythms and bassist Harish Raghavan propelling a largely exhilarating live set. Brief, yet not too-short, soliloquys introducing the members of the band preceding each track is a neat touch and there’s no lack of assured, edge-of-the-seat improvised moments following them.

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