Marquis Hill Blacktet concert moving to Bourbon Theatre

Due to impending inclement weather, the June 18 Jazz in June concert featuring the Marquis Hill Blacktet will be relocated to the Bourbon Theatre, 1415 O St. Doors will open at 6 p.m., with the concert starting at 7 p.m. The vendor marketplace is canceled.

Seating is first come, first served. Attendees are welcome to bring their own chairs, as seating is limited. Outside food is allowed, but beverages are not permitted.

VIP ticket holders, Rhythm Club members and sponsors should check in at the front door upon arrival. A volunteer will direct them to their seats.

Award-winning trumpeter, composer and band leader Marquis Hill is a highly skilled jazz musician with a bent toward soulful post-bop but whose recent music melds aspects of hip-hop, jazz, R&B, soul and blues. As evidenced by his 2016 album, “The Way We Play,” his is a beat-conscious music where the spirits of Louis Armstrong and Miles Davis inhabit the same sonic universe as Erykah Badu, Kendrick Lamar, Sly Stone and even George Clinton. A native of Chicago, Hill earned a bachelor’s degree in music education and jazz studies from Northern Illinois University in 2009. Three years later, he received a master’s degree in jazz pedagogy from DePaul University. A highly lauded performer, Hill won first place in both the 2012 International Trumpet Guild’s Jazz Improvisation Competition and the 2013 Carmine Caruso International Jazz Trumpet Solo Competition. In 2014, he won the prestigious Thelonious Monk Institute’s International Jazz Competition. He has performed with artists such as Benny Golson, Rodney Whitaker and Steve Turre.

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