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▀ ▄▄ ▀█▄▀██▄▄████▌ARTIST: Russell Gunn ▐████▄███▀▄█▀ ▄▄
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█████▄ ▐█▌▐███▄ TITLE: Ethnomusicology Vol. 3 ▄███▌▐█▌ ▄█████
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▀█████▓▄▄▄█▐▓█████▌ LABEL: Justin Time Records ▐█████▓▌█▄▄▄▓█████▀
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▄████▀▀▀▄ ▐██▓ 01 Celebrity Room Intro 0:47 ▓██▌ ▐▌ ▐████
▐████▌ ▄▄▓▓█▓▌ 02 No Seperation 4:12 ▐▓█▓▓▄ ▀█▄▄▄███▀
▀████▄▄▄▄███████▀ 03 The Critic's Song 2:54 ▀█████▄ ▀▀▀
▀▀███▀▄█████▀ 04 Variations 6:04 ▀█████▄
▄█████▀ ▀▄▄ 05 East St. Louis 5:45 ▄▄▀ ▀█████▄
▐█████ ▐█▓ 06 John Wicks 7:06 ▓█▌ █████▌
█████▌ ███▌ 07 Yesterdays 7:35 ▐███ ▐█████
▀█████▄ ▓██▓ 08 Strange Fruit 4:03 ▓██▓ ▄█████▀
▀▀███████▀ 09 Stranger Fruit 7:01 ▀█████████
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▐████▌ ▄▄▓▓█▓▌ If one were attempting to design a ▐▓█▓▓▄ ▀█▄▄▄███▀
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▐█████ ▐█▓ trumpeter/fluegelhornist/composer ▓█▌ █████▌
█████▌ ███▌ Russell Gunn would be an ideal model. ▐███ ▐█████
▀█████▄ ▓██▓ A certified member of the hip-hop ▓██▓ ▄█████▀
▀▀███████▀ generation by age (born in 1971) and ▀█████████
▀▀██▄ geography (the hardcore ghetto of East ▄██▀▀███ ▀ ▄
▄▄▄▄▄ ▐██▓ St. Louis), Russell's early aspirations ▓██▌ ████▄ ▄█▌
▀ ▀▀███▄ ▄▓▓█▓▌ in the world of rap music took ▐▓█▓▓▄ ▀███████▀
▐███▌▄█████▀ precedence over the trumpet that he ▀█████▄ ▀▀▀
▄ ▄███▄█████▀ began playing in fourth grade. When he ▀█████▄
▀▀███▀██████▀ ▀▄▄ reached sixteen, the deadline he set for ▄▄▀ ▀█████▄
▐█████ ▐█▓ his hip-hop career to take off, his ▓█▌ █████▌
█████▌ ███▌ dedication to the art of jazz took ▐███ ▐█████
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▄▄▄ ▀▀██▄ Rather than abandoning the music he ▄██▀▀■ ▀████▄
▄████▀▀▀▄ ▐██▓ loved, he simply applied its energy, ▓██▌ ▐▌ ▐████
▐████▌ ▄▄▓▓█▓▌ spirit and fiercely proud intellectual ▐▓█▓▓▄ ▀█▄▄▄███▀
▀████▄▄▄▄███████▀ rage to the jazz idiom, creating a ▀█████▄ ▀▀▀
▀▀███▀▄█████▀ synthesis that is truly contemporary and ▀█████▄
▄█████▀ ▀▄▄ singular, exemplified by his ▄▄▀ ▀█████▄
▐█████ ▐█▓ groundbreaking group, Ethnomusicology. ▓█▌ █████▌
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▀▀███████▀ As the name clearly indicates, Gunn, ▀█████████
▀▀██▄ like most of the finest young musicians ▄██▀▀███ ▀ ▄
▄▄▄▄▄ ▐██▓ to emerge in the past decade, has ▓██▌ ████▄ ▄█▌
▀ ▀▀███▄ ▄▓▓█▓▌ developed his music from a wide variety ▐▓█▓▓▄ ▀███████▀
▐███▌▄█████▀ of musical influences. In his case, Gunn ▀█████▄ ▀▀▀
▄ ▄███▄█████▀ weaves together elements of Cuban, ▀█████▄
▀▀███▀██████▀ ▀▄▄ Brazilian, African, D.C.'s "Go Go" ▄▄▀ ▀█████▄
▐█████ ▐█▓ music, and Hip-Hop into an ▓█▌ █████▌
█████▌ ███▌ adventurously progressive jazz style ▐███ ▐█████
▀█████▄ ▓██▓ that pays tribute to its tradition ▓██▓ ▄█████▀
▀▀███████▀ while also extending the form. ▀███████▀▓▄▄▄
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▄████▀▀▀▄ ▐██▓ Born in Chicago, Russell was nine years ▓██▌ ▐▌ ▐████
▐████▌ ▄▄▓▓█▓▌ old when his family moved to East St. ▐▓█▓▓▄ ▀█▄▄▄███▀
▀████▄▄▄▄███████▀ Louis, Illinois. Always interested in ▀█████▄ ▀▀▀
▀▀███▀▄█████▀ music, at the age of 10, he selected the ▀█████▄
▄█████▀ ▀▄▄ trumpet as his instrument and began a ▄▄▀ ▀█████▄
▐█████ ▐█▓ nearly decade-long membership in his ▓█▌ █████▌
█████▌ ███▌ school band where his cousin Anthony ▐███ ▐█████
▀█████▄ ▓██▓ Wiggins, the band's featured trumpeter, ▓██▓ ▄█████▀
▀▀███████▀ and the band director Ron Carter (not ▀█████████
▀▀██▄ the legendary bassist) fueled his musical ▄██▀▀███ ▀ ▄
▄▄▄▄▄ ▐██▓ interest. ▓██▌ ████▄ ▄█▌
▀ ▀▀███▄ ▄▓▓█▓▌ ▐▓█▓▓▄ ▀███████▀
▐███▌▄█████▀ But it was really the popular rapper LL ▀█████▄ ▀▀▀
▄ ▄███▄█████▀ Cool J who was his primary inspiration and ▀█████▄
▀▀███▀██████▀ ▀▄▄ first musical idol. While performing at ▄▄▀ ▀█████▄
▐█████ ▐█▓ school talent shows, making demos and ▓█▌ █████▌
█████▌ ███▌ constructing adventurous rhymes, ▐███ ▐█████
▀█████▄ ▓██▓ Russell began to develop a deeper ▓██▓ ▄█████▀
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▄▄▄ ▀▀██▄ had always been so daunting, but ▄██▀▀■ ▀████▄
▄████▀▀▀▄ ▐██▓ fascinating to him. ▓██▌ ▐▌ ▐████
▐████▌ ▄▄▓▓█▓▌ ▐▓█▓▓▄ ▀█▄▄▄███▀
▀████▄▄▄▄███████▀ After spending two years at ▀█████▄ ▀▀▀
▀▀███▀▄█████▀ Mississippi's Jackson State University on ▀█████▄
▄█████▀ ▀▄▄ a full music scholarship, Gunn moved to ▄▄▀ ▀█████▄
▐█████ ▐█▓ St. Louis, freelancing and periodically ▓█▌ █████▌
█████▌ ███▌ performing on cruise ships. ▐███ ▐█████
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▀▀███████▀ It was while working at a club called ▀█████████
▀▀██▄ Cicero's in 1993 that the great ▄██▀▀███ ▀ ▄
▄▄▄▄▄ ▐██▓ saxophonist/composer and co-founder of ▓██▌ ████▄ ▄█▌
▀ ▀▀███▄ ▄▓▓█▓▌ the World Saxophone Quartet, Oliver ▐▓█▓▓▄ ▀███████▀
▐███▌▄█████▀ Lake happened to hear the young ▀█████▄ ▀▀▀
▄ ▄███▄█████▀ trumpeter, and immediately invited him to ▀█████▄
▀▀███▀██████▀ ▀▄▄ come to New York for a performance at ▄▄▀ ▀█████▄
▐█████ ▐█▓ the Brooklyn Museum. ▓█▌ █████▌
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▀█████▄ ▓██▓ Suffering undue criticism from the ▓██▓ ▄█████▀
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▄████▀▀▀▄ ▐██▓ dress, Russell's virtuoso abilities and ▓██▌ ▐▌ ▐████
▐████▌ ▄▄▓▓█▓▌ command of all musical styles from funk ▐▓█▓▓▄ ▀█▄▄▄███▀
▀████▄▄▄▄███████▀ to the avant-garde evidenced a serious ▀█████▄ ▀▀▀
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▐█████ ▐█▓ A fortuitous appearance at a 4am jam ▓█▌ █████▌
█████▌ ███▌ session at New York's famed Blue Note ▐███ ▐█████
▀█████▄ ▓██▓ club was heard by Denis Jeter, an ▓██▓ ▄█████▀
▀▀███████▀ assistant to Wynton Marsalis at Lincoln ▀█████████
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