The Mugican

Description

Packed with talented peers and collaborators from across the musical spectrum like Gary Clark Jr., Big K.R.I.T., Bilal, Guy Torry, Georgia Anne Muldrow and Robert Glasper, The Mugician is Keyon Harrolds most courageous album to date, redefining the textures and sounds of traditional jazz and venturing into contrasting sonic territories (Salon). The trumpeters compositions draw on elements of jazz, classical, rock, blues, and hip hop to create something uniquely modern and unmistakably American.

While some tracks like MB Lament, When Will it Stop, and Circus Show rage, mourn and protest, others, like spoken-word vignette Voicemail and Stay This Way celebrate the redemptive power of love, family and community and insist upon the absolute necessity of optimism in the face of doubt and darkness. Altogether, the The Mugician is a master study in composition, lyricism and production that offers courage, hope and warmth in troubled times.

Hailed as the future of the trumpet by Wynton Marsalis, the Grammy-winning musician was born and raised in Ferguson, MO, the St. Louis suburb that tore into Americas national consciousness in 2014 with the police shooting of Michael Brown. Intimately inspired by the trauma, grief, and rage Keyon experienced as he watched his hometown suffer and explode with violence, The Mugician is an album deeply concerned with race, power, violence, and their intersections today in America.