People Of The Sun

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...Strickland has impressed as a player, but this mature piece of work shows that his skills as a composer and thinker are really beginning to hit the heights. — Jazzwise, February 2019, 4 out of 5 stars

Release Date: 9th Nov 2018
Catalogue No: 6792334
Label: Blue Note
Length: 44 minutes

Marcus Strickland: Lullaby

Work length1:47

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Weedie Braimah (drum), Marcus Strickland Twi-Life, Mitch Henry (organ), Mitch Henry (keyboards), Charles Haynes (drums), Marcus Strickland (tenor saxophone), Marcus Strickland (bass clarinet), Weedie Braimah (percussion), Kyles Miles (electric bass)
Recorded: 2018
Recording Venue: Herd Studios

Marcus Strickland: Timing

Work length5:25

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Marcus Strickland Twi-Life, Weedie Braimah (conga), Mitch Henry (organ), Mitch Henry (keyboards), Kyle Miles (electric bass), Marcus Strickland (drum programming), Marcus Strickland (tenor saxophone), Marcus Strickland (bass clarinet), Charles Haynes (drums)
Recorded: 2018
Recording Venue: Herd Studios

Marcus Strickland: People Of The Sun

Work length1:18

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Mitch Henry (keyboards), Marcus Strickland Twi-Life, Weedie Braimah (conga), Kyles Miles (electric bass), Mitch Henry (organ), Marcus Strickland (tenor saxophone), Marcus Strickland (sopranino recorder), Marcus Strickland (bass clarinet), Charles Haynes (drums)
Recorded: 2018
Recording Venue: Herd Studios

Marcus Strickland, Pharoahe Monch, B. Oliver: On My Mind

Work length4:49

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Bilal (vocalist), Marcus Strickland Twi-Life, Greg Tate (spoken word), Pharoahe Monch (rap vocalist), Mitch Henry (keyboards), Kyles Miles (electric bass), Charles Haynes (drums), Marcus Strickland (drum programming), Marcus Strickland (additional keyboards), Marcus Strickland (tenor saxophone), Marcus Strickland (bass clarinet)
Recorded: 2018
Recording Venue: Herd Studios

Marcus Strickland: Relentlessness

Work length5:47

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Marcus Strickland Twi-Life, Mitch Henry (keyboards), Kyles Miles (electric bass), Marcus Strickland (tenor saxophone), Marcus Strickland (bass clarinet), Charles Haynes (drums)
Recorded: 2018
Recording Venue: Herd Studios

Marcus Strickland, Akie Bermiss: Marvelous

Work length3:43

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Marcus Strickland Twi-Life, Akie Bermiss (vocals), Weedie Braimah (conga), Mitch Henry (organ), Mitch Henry (keyboards), Kyles Miles (electric bass), Charles Haynes (drums), Marcus Strickland (tenor saxophone), Marcus Strickland (sopranino recorder), Marcus Strickland (drum programming), Marcus Strickland (bass clarinet), Keyon Harrold (trumpet)
Recorded: 2018
Recording Venue: Herd Studios

Marcus Strickland: Black Love

Work length4:15

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Marcus Strickland Twi-Life, Vanessa Strickland (spoken word), Mitch Henry (organ), Michael Strickland (spoken word), Dawn McGee Strickland (spoken word), Marcus Strickland (tenor saxophone), Marcus Strickland (bass clarinet), Angelika Beener (spoken word), Charles Haynes (drums), Kyle Miles (bass)
Recorded: 2018
Recording Venue: Herd Studios

Marcus Strickland: Build

Work length5:20

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Marcus Strickland Twi-Life, Mitch Henry (organ), Kyles Miles (bass), Charles Haynes (percussion), Marcus Strickland (tenor saxophone), Marcus Strickland (bass clarinet), Marcus Strickland (alto saxophone), Charles Haynes (drums)
Recorded: 2018
Recording Venue: Herd Studios

Marcus Strickland: Cloaked In Controversy

Work length1:44

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Marcus Strickland Twi-Life, Melanie Charles (voice), Kasey Hearns (voice), Marcus Strickland (sopranino recorder), Marcus Strickland (drum programming), Marcus Strickland (bass clarinet), Marcus Strickland (synthesizer), Marcus Strickland (tenor saxophone)
Recorded: 2018
Recording Venue: Herd Studios

Marcus Strickland, Jermaine Holmes, Demetrius Richardson: Aim High

Work length7:33

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Jermaine Holmes (vocals), Marcus Strickland Twi-Life, Weedie Braimah (conga), Mitch Henry (keyboards), Keyon Harrold (trumpet), Marcus Strickland (tenor saxophone), Marcus Strickland (bass clarinet), Charles Haynes (drums), Kyle Miles (bass)
Recorded: 2018
Recording Venue: Herd Studios

Marcus Strickland: Spirit Of The Music

Work length3:10

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Marcus Strickland Twi-Life, Weedie Braimah (conga), Petra Richterova (spoken word), Mitch Henry (organ), Mitch Henry (keyboards), Marcus Strickland (tenor saxophone), Marcus Strickland (bass clarinet), Charles Haynes (drums), Kyle Miles (electric bass)
Recorded: 2018
Recording Venue: Herd Studios

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On November 9th, Brooklyn composer-saxophonist Marcus Strickland will release his thrilling new LP People of the Sun via Blue Note/Revive Music. Strickland's blowing glides over the bustling scene, which is fitting since he was imagining "being a black superhero, soaring through the air trying to save my people."

When last we heard from Strickland on 2016's Nihil Novi, he was experimenting with hip-hop- inspired production, blending genres with a little help from album producer Meshell Ndegeocello.

In the process, something big happened: "I was no longer concerned about what is or isn't jazz," he says. "I got rid of those barriers and was like, 'Well, who the fuck am I?' That's when I started on this path."

On People of the Sun, Strickland blazes down that trail fully at the helm of his music—performing, writing, and producing with his outrageously able Twi-Life band on deck—even as he sonically and socially traces the African diaspora from present to past in an effort to unpack his identity."I'm thinking about where we came from," says Strickland, "and how that clashes and goes hand in hand with what we've created here as Black Americans." The result is an album that's busy and beautiful, inventive and contemplative, an amalgam of influences from West Africa (griot culture, Afrobeat, percussion) and America (post-bop, funk-soul, beat music) performed in the key of

revelation. Another facet that sets the album part is Strickland's lesser-known woodwind obsession with the bass clarinet, which adds its noirish hues to so many of these songs. Growing up in Miami, Strickland always thought of music "in a very mixed up way." He heard Haitian sounds, Afro-Cuban rhythms, and southern rap in the streets, while at home his dad would jump from Stevie to Coltrane to P-Funk on his reel-to-reel deck. Meanwhile, his mom put

Marcus and his twin brother E.J. into art school so they'd be surrounded by proper "music nerds." The talent they nurtured there on saxophone and drums (respectively) propelled the pair on to The New School at just the right time: college was basically one wild jam session with like-minded upstarts like Robert Glasper, Keyon Harrold, and Bilal Oliver—guys who'd go on to remake jazz (and more) in their own post-modern musical image. To hear People of the Sun, that backdrop feels more like fate than chance.

Marcus will play four record release shows on November 10th and 11th at Jazz Standard in NYC, featuring special guests Bilal and Pharoahe Monch. More information is available at www.jazzstandard.com.

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February 2019

...Strickland has impressed as a player, but this mature piece of work shows that his skills as a composer and thinker are really beginning to hit the heights.

People Of The Sun

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