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City Life: Music of Gregg Hill

Label: Origin Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Disc 1 (Trio): Willow Walks In; City Life; Danger Zone; Movie Theme; Sweet Georgia Gillespie; Double Bill; Claxilever; Catalyst; Say Whaaat!?; Movie Theme (Reprise). Disc 2 (Quintet): Tea Time; The Classic II; Grave Concerns; Mr. Hurt; Rainy Afternoon; Enigma; Skittles; Blues for Herb; Lafayette Square.

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Movie Theme

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Label: Origin Records
Released: 2025
Duration: 04:53

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Michael Dease: City Life: Music of Gregg Hill

Read "City Life: Music of Gregg Hill" reviewed by Paul Rauch


Michigan-based composer Gregg Hill is on a remarkable roll, authoring an impressive run of compositions represented on eight albums released on the Origin Records label. Each has featured a bandleader associated with the top shelf staff at Rodney Whitaker's jazz program at Michigan State University. City Life (2025) is the third under the leadership of trombone ...

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Michael Dease: City Life: Music of Gregg Hill

Read "City Life: Music of Gregg Hill" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


Jazz trios featuring a horn, bass and drums get right to the core of musical expression. With, most commonly, a saxophone--see Sonny Rollins' blueprint for the horn and trio setting, the 1957 Contemporary Records album Way Out West--the music flows freely. The players do not need to chase chords around. The result is a stretching of ...


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