Marquis Hill (Beautifulism) Sweet Surrender

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$35 Seated & $20 Bar/Standing 6:30pm and 8:30 Shows (Ticketed Separately) Get Tickets Chicagoan trumpeter Marquis Hill brings his lavish EP (Beautifulism) Sweet Surrender to life at Berlin. Band Members: Marquis Hill - Trumpet/Percussion Synths/Effects Micah Collier - Bass/Percussion Jillian Upshaw - Drums/Percussion ⊹ “‘Beautifulism (Sweet Surrender)’ is a blissed-out work that easily melds spirit, soul, divine and romantic love in Hill's own brand of contemporary jazz.” – Thom Jurek, AllMusic ⊹ One of the finest trumpeters in jazz today, Marquis Hill is also a composer and bandleader whose comprehensive vision highlights the unity and continuity within the musical heritage of African Americans. On acclaimed albums such as his latest — Modern Flows Vol. II — and his 2016 breakout project, The Way We Play , Hill and his working band, the Blacktet, use their next-level musicianship and deeply interactive dynamic to break down the barriers separating bop, hip-hop, R&B and electronic music. Raised on Chicago’s South Side, Hill absorbed the jazz tradition both formally — he holds a bache