Results for "Marques Carroll"

Article: Year in Review

Jerome Wilson's Best Recordings of 2021

by Jerome Wilson
December 16, 2021

Despite all the continuing crises in the world, great creative music flourished in 2021 as it always seems to do. There were some artists like Wadada Leo Smith and Vijay Iyer who continued their regular flow of excellent releases, other veterans like Charnett Moffett and Pharoah Sanders who came out with powerful statements and new voices ...

Article: Album Review

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 ...

Video

Aries Goddess

Featuring the music of Marques Carroll
Duration: 6:27
May 27, 2021

"Aries Goddess (For Consuela and the Fallen)" is a new video from ace Chicago trumpeter Marques Carroll. Featured on his debut album The Ancestors' Call, this moving composition was written for the mothers of victims of gun violence. The bandleader notes that “[it] happens all too often, whether it is by street violence or by the hands of those who are supposed to serve and protect. This piece is for all of our brothers and sisters who have lost their lives on this soil.”

Album

It Takes a Spark to Start a Fire

By Chicago Soul Jazz Collective

Label: JMARQ
Released: 2020
Track listing: Detroit will rise again; Down and out in Buffalo; It takes a spar to start a fire; Her eyes are blue and sometimes gray; God bless the patient; Where do you go when you dream; Nora calls from the moon

Article: Album Review

Chicago Soul Jazz Collective: It Takes a Spark to Start a Fire

by John Pietaro
December 5, 2020

Solace. Listening to classic 1960s soul-jazz as an escape from today's stresses united the musicians who founded the Chicago Soul Jazz Collective. Many of us know of that comfort, the one carried by a cursory view of nostalgia. But don't look too close. Tenor saxophonist John Fournier and trumpet player Marques Carroll built a band on ...

Musician

Marques Carroll

Chicago based trumpeter Marques Carroll is keeping the tradition of jazz alive while pushing the genre forward into exciting new territory. A bold performer and passionate educator, he is dedicated to preserving the authentic culture of jazz and spreading his holistic love of music around the world. Born into a musical family in St. Louis, Marques fell in love with the trumpet when he was only 8 years old. His grandfather worked with jazz legend Clark Terry who would become a major influence on the young musician. Marques grew up absorbing the blues of Louis Armstrong and the laid back sounds of Miles Davis, eventually going on to study jazz performance at DePaul University