Marcus Strickland

A central fixture of New York City’s jazz scene since the 1990s, Grammy-nominated tenor saxophonist Marcus Strickland continues to morph as an artist, consistently releasing tracks about relevant topics as times change. Growing up in Miami, FL hearing his identical twin brother E.J. Strickland and his lawyer father both play the drums, Strickland developed a unique familiarity with many instruments. He received a scholarship to attend The New School and moved to New York in 1997, paving the way for his involvement in New York City’s freshly budding ‘90s jazz and hip-hop scenes. Strickland launched his own label, Strick Muzik, in 2006, and was signed to the legendary Blue Note Records in 2015. In his band, Twi-Life, which exists at the intersection of hip-hop and jazz, Strickland is a multi-instrumentalist, beat maker, and composer. After releasing his album Twi-Life on his own label in 2006, he was named “Best New Artist” in the JazzTimes Readers’ Poll. Strickland’s albums often combine many genres like hip-hop, Afro-beat, funk, jazz, rock, and jungle. He has performed consistently at the Blue Note Jazz Club in New York among other legendary venues, with the likes of McCoy Tyner, Nicholas Payton, Wynton Marsalis, Christian McBride's New Jawn & Chucho Valdez "La Creación,” Keyon Harrold, and Mos Def, etc. As an Associate Professor of Practice in the Department of Studio Music at the University of Miami Frost School of Music, he splits his time between Miami and New York.

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