Jazz Articles about Alex Wasily

Marques Carroll: The Ancestors' Call

by Jerome Wilson
July 5, 2021

This is the debut album from Chicago-based trumpeter Marques Carroll and he uses it to address very specific concerns—the ongoing struggle for identity and freedom that African-Americans have been going through in the USA for centuries. He does this in compositions that represent a dialogue between generations, music that reaches back to the spiritual jazz of the Sixties as well as touching on the hip-hop, soul and Latin rhythms of today. On the opening “The Ancestors' Call Upon ...