MARC CARY & MAURICE BROWN SHORT CIRCUIT
"Mr. Brown also anchored a separate set with the keyboardist Marc Cary, improvising over rhythm loops made in real-time. Mr. Cary, deep in his element, nudged the production toward soulful house music, and Mr. Brown processed his horn through effects. The synthesis of jazz and electronic music is often more persuasive in concept than execution, but this was a duo prepared to disarm skepticism." - The New York Times
MARC CARY
Jazz innovator Marc Cary, voted Rising Star-Keyboardist in this year's 62nd Annual DownBeat Critics Poll, updates one of the most adventurous concepts of his career with the release of Rhodes Ahead Vol. 2 on March 17, 2015, on Motéma Music....
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MARC CARY & MAURICE BROWN SHORT CIRCUIT
"Mr. Brown also anchored a separate set with the keyboardist Marc Cary, improvising over rhythm loops made in real-time. Mr. Cary, deep in his element, nudged the production toward soulful house music, and Mr. Brown processed his horn through effects. The synthesis of jazz and electronic music is often more persuasive in concept than execution, but this was a duo prepared to disarm skepticism." - The New York Times
MARC CARY
Jazz innovator Marc Cary, voted Rising Star-Keyboardist in this year's 62nd Annual DownBeat Critics Poll, updates one of the most adventurous concepts of his career with the release of Rhodes Ahead Vol. 2 on March 17, 2015, on Motéma Music.
The multi-grooved Cary's dossier includes work with a pantheon of jazz legends, among them Dizzy Gillespie, Art Taylor, Betty Carter, Roy Hargrove, Carmen McRae, and a notable 12-year stint with Abbey Lincoln. Cary is also comfortable in electronic, ambient, and hip-hop surroundings, and has worked on high profile projects with Q-Tip and members of Wu-Tang Clan (as well as activist alternative rocker Ani DiFranco). Many of those influences were brought out on Rhodes Ahead, which contributed directly to Cary winning the Best New Artist award at the first annual Billboard/BET On Jazz Conference in Washington, DC, June 2000.
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MAURICE BROWN
You have heard Grammy Award-winning trumpet player Maurice "Mobetta" Brown before. After all, he's appeared on LP's from Santigold, Ski Beatz, John Legend, Talib Kweli, Cee-Lo, Diddy, Musiq Soulchild and countless others; but you heard his trumpet and not his voice.
Think Louis Armstrong, with a trumpet uploaded to the 21st century with a hip-hop beat, and you begin to understand who this young genius is. Maurice is a classically-trained jazzman mentored and supported by the iconic Wynton Marsalis and the legendary Ramsey Lewis. But "Mobetta" is also a Hip-Hop head for life, and that journey on this planet rock literally parallels the history and evolution of rap. Little wonder that Maurice not only blows the roof off God's sky with his horn, but he also spits lyrics the way Satchmo spit his own brand of vocalese back in the day. Yup, Mobetta is a horn-playing-rhyme-spraying-dancing machine that Jazz-Hip-Hop collaborators like Donald Byrd and Gang Starr's Guru, or Ron Carter and A Tribe Called Quest fantasized about in the early 1990s. No need to cram to make that jazz/hip-hop experiment happen in these times because Maurice Brown is the living and breathing embodiment of it all, a one-stop shop destined to be this era's Quincy Jones. And then some!
Fresh off of winning his very first Grammy with Tedeschi Trucks Band for Best Blues Album of the year in 2012 (Maurice was the horn arranger for the 11-piece ensemble), Maurice is prepping his latest release, "Maurice vs Mobetta", or rather, Maurice's jazz side versus his hip-hop persona. And Maurice is just getting warmed up...
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