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| Trumpeter Maurice Brown announces the release of Hip to Bop 23-year-old New Orleans jazz trumpeter, Maurice Brown announces the release of Hip to Bop (Brown Records). “My music pays homage to all the jazz greats,” said Brown. “I blend elements of contemporary jazz, post modern bop and a dash of hip urban flavor to produce a very cool and sophisticated listen.” Hip to Bop is burning up the jazz charts due to its imaginative tracks and arranging. The CD makes die-hard jazz fans feel like they are listening to a long lost album by the Miles Davis Quintet said one reviewer. Hip to Bop’s first track “Rapture” features a pulsating bass that lures in the listener and then cuts loose its horns, drums and piano knocking you back to the wall. In “It’s a New Day” Brown takes the tempo down with a soulful groove that flows into the caressing melody, “Mi Amor.” Hip to Bop features a total of eight tracks including the title track. “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,” said Ellis Marsalis. Since he started playing Chicago jazz clubs in high school, Brown is blazing his own jazz trail with solos described as “tonally brilliant and stylistically unorthodox.” In June of 2001, he won first place in the National Miles Davis Trumpet Competition held in St. Louis, Missouri. He has played with many jazz veterans and jazz contemporaries such as Ramsey Lewis, Lenny White, Johnny Griffin, Frank Morgan, Clark Terry, Ellis Marsalis, Charles Fambrough, Mulgrew Miller, and Jeff “Tain” Watts. Additionally, he has recorded as a sideman with Curtis Fuller, Fred Anderson, Young Bleed, Roy Hargrove, Michelle Carr, George Freeman, and Ernest Dawkins’ New Horizons. The Maurice Brown Quintet appears weekly at Snug Harbor Bistro, New Orleans’ premier jazz club. write your comments about the article :: © 2004 Jazz News :: home page |