Release Date: January 17th, 2025 on Imani Records
Seattle-based Trumpeter/Composer Thomas Marriott to release new recording “Screen Time“, accompanied by mighty trio sporting Orrin Evans on piano with bassist Robert Hurst & drummer Mark Whitfield Jr.
About the Recording
ScreenTime, trumpeter Thomas Marriott’s 15th album as a leader, features music from screens large and small, from the Cineplex to the iPhone, all reinvented for a state-of-the-art jazz quartet. With longtime collaborator and producer Orrin Evans on piano, rising star Mark Whitfield Jr. on drums, and jazz legend Robert Hurst III on bass, ScreenTime takes the listener through an album of songs both familiar and obscure, energetic and contemplative, original and well-loved, and always engaging. Marriott’s trumpet paints a cinematic portrait of the music in vivid technicolour sound, backed by a crew of musical luminaries who set the stage for blockbuster action, romance and drama.
About Thomas Marriott
Trumpeter, composer, and producer Thomas Marriott is a force for jazz on the west coast. He’s paid dues beside jazz elders such as Maynard Ferguson, Roy McCurdy, Julian Priester, Ernie Watts, Roger Humphries, Mike Clark and Stix Hooper, and has been called on by contemporary standard-bearers like Joe Locke, Orrin Evans, Steve Wilson, and Charlie Hunter.
A chameleon of musical styles, Marriott’s horn has been in-demand with bands like the Grammy-Award winning Spanish Harlem Orchestra, Captain Black Big Band, Ivan Neville’s Dumpstafunk, hip-hop pioneer Deltron 3030 , and vocalists Kurt Elling, Ernestine Anderson, Michael Feinstein and Rosemary Clooney.
His own albums, 14 in all, have reached number one on the jazz radio airplay charts, earned 4 1/2 stars in Downbeat, and have been featured on NPR. Thomas Marriott has been featured in the New York Times, has won 9 Golden Ear Awards, the Carmine Caruso Trumpet Competition, is the youngest inductee into the Seattle Jazz Hall of Fame, spent more than 20 seasons as a soloist with the Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra and is founder of Seattle Jazz Fellowship, a non-profit arts organization dedicated to promoting jazz music and jazz culture in Seattle. In 2024 he was named a “Jazz Hero” by the Jazz Journalists Association.