Maurice Brown, Hip to Bop - 45m 20s

Tracks & Durations

1. Rapture	8:17
2. It's a New Day	5:18
3. Mi Amor	8:09
4. Conceptions	5:39
5. Anazao	4:47
6. Hip to Bop	5:09
7. Look Ma No Hands	4:11
8. A Call For All Angels	3:44

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Review

In the early 20th century New Orleans jazz musicians traveled up the Mississippi River to Chicago. The talented 24-year-old Windy City trumpeter Maurice Brown has made the reverse migration to the Crescent City, where he's emerged as a phenom. His debut CD aurally illustrates his burgeoning, diamond-in-the-rough trumpet style, influenced by masters like Fats Navarro, and Wynton Marsalis, the man who discovered him. Backed by a quicksilver New Orleans combo featuring Los Hombres Calientes percussionist Bill Summers, Brown's material is modern, neo-classic, and surprisingly accessible. The melodically complex opener "Rapture," swings like Miles Davis's classic 1960s combos and "Mi Amor" is a mature ballad, while "It's a New Day" bops with funky backbeats that echo Donald Byrd's finest flights from the 1970s. Like Roy Hargrove and Russell Gunn before him, Maurice Brown keeps it real, and reels in new listeners with his tradition in transition approach. --Eugene Holley, Jr.Hip to Bop is unusually sophisticated and timeless for a debut album. Trumpeter Maurice Brown's original pulse-quickening compositions will make die-hard jazz fans feel like they're listening to a long-lost album by the Miles Davis Quintet, while causing others to exclaim, "This is jazz?!" In the first track, "Rapture," the thumping heartbeat of the bass will envelop your ears, and then quietly explode into a melodic cacophony of horns, drums, and piano. But just as Maurice quickens your pulse, he'll then pepper your ear with a soulful groove in "It's a New Day," before letting you catch your breath with a caressing melody, "Mi Amor." It's at this point you realize this is no ordinary jazz trumpeter and this is certainly no ordinary contemporary jazz album. In "A Call for All Angels," "Anazao," "Conceptions," and "Look Ma No Hands," he illustrates his ability to create a comfort zone from the ballad to the virtuoso. In the album's liner notes, jazz great Ellis Marsalis proclaims, "Hip to Bop is an appropriate title for a cd that employs background riffs, wide intervals in the melody, a trumpet solo with a wah wah pedal all combined to connect the modern idiom to the BeBop tradition. He is paying homage to the past with elements of the present serving as the foundation for future concepts. Such is the tasteful compositional technique of Maurice Brown." Without a doubt, Hip to Bop belongs in the musical library of every music lover.

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