Artist description Freddie Dunn is smashing boundaries! With his band, iNDiGRUUV, and the various other projects he's involved with this Jersey-bred trumpeter has what it takes to leap tall obstacles in a single bound. With a sound honed on such classic trumpeters as Miles Davis, Blue Mitchell, Woody Shaw, Lee Morgan etc, plus a musical pedigree which is drenched in hip-hop, blues, classical, and soul it's no wonder he chooses to address his influences together in a musical bouliabase he likes to call me-bop. His current musical excursions look to find not the commonalities but the disparities between hip-hop and Jazz and to exploit them. Free of the ideological and musical tethers that have caused other so-called 'hip-hop-bop' projects to fall flat Freddy offers up a blend of musical that is as much Def-Jam as it is Blue Note. In trumpet world there are two giants who bestride the path to the latest organic innovation after having blaze significant tangents to the trails blazed so adroitly by those before them. These Collussi are Woody Shaw, and Booker Little. Both men left this vail prematurely. But the seeds of their divergents paths were already laid. The melodic innovations and new approaches to harmonic movement serve as pointers to those wishing to develope an individual and modern trumpet sound. Freddy has pursued this course dilligently, and in so doing has collected the threads of such a sound. Forging his concepts within the kiln of hip-hop has lent an even more personal aspect to his concept.

Music Style Hip-Hop influenced bop/Straight-ahead Jazz

Musical Influences Lee Morgan, Blue Mitchell, Woody Shaw, Premiere, Neptunes, KRS-1, Chuck D, Dizzy, Kwell Dunn, CJ, Craig Alston, James Collins, Dontae Winslow, Russell Gunn, Miles Davis, De La Soul, Jay-Z, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Minister Louis Farakan, El Haj Malik Shabazz(Malcolm X), DMX, ScarFace, Puffy, Biggie

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Instruments Trumpet, Flugelhorn, Cornet, Didjeridoo

Albums Me-Bop,

Location Baltimore, MD - USA

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