Marcus Strickland Twi-Life - People Of The Sun (2018)

Marcus Strickland is an American jazz soprano, alto, and tenor
saxophonist who grew up in Miami, Florida. Down Beat magazine's
Critics' Poll named him 'Rising Star on Tenor Saxophone' in 2010
and 'Rising Star on Soprano Saxophone' in 2008. JazzTimes
magazine's Reader's Poll named him 'Best New Artist' in 2006. He
placed third in the 2002 Thelonious Monk International Jazz
Saxophone Competition.His band and concept project, Twi-Life
deals with the connection and intersection between jazz and Soul
& Hip Hop as inspired by the J Dilla aesthetic of intricacy,
"drunk drumming" and tonal nuance. Strickland becomes beat maker,
composer as well as saxophonist on these projects.The saxophonist
has nine releases as a leader: People of the Sun, Nihil Novi on
Blue Note Records; Triumph of the Heavy, Vol 1 & 2,
Idiosyncrasies, Open Reel Deck, & Twi-Life on his own music label
Strick Muzik; Of Song on Criss Cross Records; Brotherhood & At
Last on Fresh Sound Records.In addition to his own Twi-Life, trio
and quartet, Strickland has played with Christian McBride, Dave
Douglas, Jeff 'Tain' Watts, and also had a five-year stint with
the drummer Roy Haynes.