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| Title: Hip to Bop |
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| Artist: Maurice Brown |
| (c): (C) 2004 Brown Records |
| (p): (P) 2004 Brown Records |
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2004-08-30 |
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About this album...
Hip to Bop is unusually sophisticated and timeless for a debut album. Trumpeter Maurice Brown's original pulse-quickening compositions will make die-hard jazz fans feel like they're listening to a long-lost album by the Miles Davis Quintet, while causing others to exclaim, "This is jazz?!" In the first track, "Rapture," the thumping heartbeat of the bass will envelop your ears, and then quietly explode into a melodic cacophony of horns, drums, and piano. But just as Maurice quickens your pulse, he'll then pepper your ear with a soulful groove in "It's a New Day," before letting you catch your breath with a caressing melody, "Mi Amor." It's at this point you realize this is no ordinary jazz trumpeter and this is certainly no ordinary contemporary jazz album. In "A Call for All Angels," "Anazao," "Conceptions," and "Look Ma No Hands," he illustrates his ability to create a comfort zone from the ballad to the virtuoso. In the album's liner notes, jazz great Ellis Marsalis proclaims, "Hip to Bop is an appropriate title for a cd that employs background riffs, wide intervals in the melody, a trumpet solo with a wah wah pedal all combined to connect the modern idiom to the BeBop tradition. He is paying homage to the past with elements of the present serving as the foundation for future concepts. Such is the tasteful compositional technique of Maurice Brown." Without a doubt, Hip to Bop belongs in the musical library of every music lover.
In June of 2001, Maurice Brown won first place in the National Miles Davis Trumpet Competition, held in St. Louis, Missouri. Maurice has recorded as a sideman with Curtis Fuller, Fred Anderson, Young Bleed, Roy Hargrove, Michelle Carr, George Freeman, and Ernest Dawkins' New Horizons. In August of 2004, at age 23, Maurice released his first album as a leader, entitled Hip to Bop. He is currently active on jazz scenes across the country, garnering the acknowledgement and praise of most everyone who has an opportunity to hear him play. In New Orleans, where he currently resides, the Maurice Brown Quintet appears weekly at Snug Harbor Bistro, New Orleans' premier jazz club.
At such a fertile point in his early career, Maurice expresses a humble desire for musical progress, stating in his usual affable manner, "I just want to get better every day." |
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