Marquis Hill in Chicago

Marquis Hill is an American trumpeter and composer from Chicago who plays post-bop and soul jazz shaped by hip-hop. His Blacktet is central to recordings including New Gospel and the Modern Flows series, while The Way We Play interprets works associated with Donald Byrd, Herbie Hancock and other jazz composers. In 2014, Marquis Hill won the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Trumpet Competition in Los Angeles. He later performed with the Blacktet at NPR Music’s Tiny Desk and returned to material from his debut for a concert recording released as New Gospel Revisited, documenting the ensemble at Constellation in Chicago.