misterlatinjazz's video: Marc Cary Trio San Jose Jazz Winter Fest 3 7 2015

MARC CARY FOCUS TRIO Marc Cary has spent close to a decade honing a distinctive sound and improvisational approach with his enduring and much acclaimed Focus Trio. He attended the Duke Ellington School of the Arts and began his rise as a jazz piano modernist in 1988. Cary has worked with such masters as Arthur Taylor, Dizzy Gillespie, and Max Roach. His talent has elevated the music of everyone from Russell Gunn to Q-Tip to Ani DiFranco and as a recording artist his ensemble work has helped earn Grammy® Award-nominations for albums by Abbey Lincoln, Betty Carter, Roy Hargrove, and Stefon Harris. His 12-year tenure with vocalist, songwriter, and jazz icon Abbey Lincoln also shaped his incredible talent. Several of Cary’s albums have earned critical acclaim, including his electronica odyssey Rhodes Ahead (Vol. 1) that won him the first annual Billboard/BET ”Best New Jazz Artist” award in 2000. Cary debuted his fledgling Focus Trio project on the Motéma label in 2006. Four Directions, Focus Trio’s first studio recording in eight years, follows on the heels of two powerful interim releases (Focus Trio Live 2008 and Focus Trio Live 2009). Despite a few shifts in the bass chair, and an ever-transforming array of instrumentation, the band’s original mission remains the same: ”to bring indigenous rhythms together with American jazz to create new palettes of sound.” PERSONNEL Marc Cary, piano Rashaan Carter, bass Sameer Gupta, drums Video by Arturo Riera MisterLatinJazz.com 2015 Thanks to Brendan Rawson and Bruce Labadie of San Jose Jazz.org