Jazz Articles about Marshall Gilkes

About Marshall Gilkes

Album Review

Every good musician deserves favor, and trombonist Marshall Gilkes has found his with the Maria Schneider Orchestra, the Village Vanguard Orchestra, Chico O'Farrill and Machito among others. His presence in such ensembles is easily justified by his ability to blend in as part of the band, and the fact that his technique is suited to many different grooves and styles. In between gigs, Gilkes found enough time to write all but one of the tunes that went ...

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Marshall Gilkes: Edenderry

Read "Edenderry" reviewed by Michael P. Gladstone

by Michael P. Gladstone
May 1, 2005

Marshall Gilkes is a trombonist and composer in his mid-twenties. After graduating from the University of Northern Colorado, he moved to the New York area, where he attended William Patterson University in New Jersey, studying with Conrad Herwig, Ed Neumeister, and Rufus Reid. He became a freelance trombonist and in 2003 was a finalist in the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition. Gilkes has worked extensively in the jazz and Latin fields as well as in New York's musical theatre.