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Gregg Hill

Randy Napoleon: The Door is Open: The Music of Gregg Hill

by Paul Rauch
February 5, 2024

In and around the formidable jazz studies program at Michigan State University is a plethora of jazz talent devoted to instrumental and compositional excellence. Most of this talent is young, benefiting from a wide array of world-class instructors that includes program director Rodney Whitaker and veteran guitarist Randy Napoleon, among other notables. Within this labyrinth of ...

TechnoCats: The Music of Gregg Hill

by Jack Bowers
September 16, 2023

The TechnoCats are a group of five talented young musicians, each of whom has ties to Michigan State University in East Lansing, as does composer (and co-producer) Gregg Hill, whose music the TechnoCats perform on this delightful album. One of the quintet's more diverting features is that the only horn is Chris Glassman's bass trombone; another ...

Michael Dease: The Other Shoe: The Music of Gregg Hill

by Jerome Wilson
April 14, 2023

Gregg Hill is a jazz composer favored by several jazz musicians who have recorded entire albums of his work, such as guitarist Randy Napoleon and bassist Rodney Whitaker. Here trombonist Michael Dease joins the party with a full album of Hill pieces arranged for a quintet. Hill's writing on this album delves into a ...

Rodney Whitaker: Oasis: The Music of Gregg Hill

by Jack Bowers
January 25, 2023

Oasis is the third time around for bassist Rodney Whitaker and music written by fellow Michigander Gregg Hill, following Common Ground (Origin 82780) and Outrospection (Origin 82819). Personnel is the same as on Common Ground (Terell Stafford, trumpet; Tim Warfield, saxophone; Bruce Barth, piano; Dana Hall, drums; Rockelle Fortin, vocals) with Hall and Fortin returning from ...

Kevin Eubanks, Orrin Evans & Immanuel Wilkins

by Joe Dimino
April 3, 2022

From a new super jazz group Pluto Juice, we begin the 745th Episode of Neon Jazz with the 2022 song “Pluto and Beyond." The band includes Dayna Stephens and we play on song off his 2015 album Reminiscent. From there, we get into new music from Gregg Hill, Remy Le Boeuf and Micah Graves. Kansas City ...

Ritmo Patria

By Mike Eyia

Label: Cold Plunge Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Latin-Hattan; Ôdiame; La Canción; Till We Meet Again; Tequila Chaser; The Singer; Recuerdos; Rio Mio; Quietude.