Happy New Year!

Hi everyone!

I just wanted to personally thank everyone for all the love and continued support. I feel like the people's champ right now! Because of your support, my career has taken off to new heights. This year The Effect has travel all over the globe promoting the new album. We performed shows in India, Indonesia, London, Croatia, Spain, Italy, and all over the country. This has been an incredible year for me with the highest of highs and lowest of lows. I've made some major changes in my life and learned a lot about myself in the process. When I cut my locks off, it was a very spiritual moment for me. I feel so much more in tune with everything. I promise to work even harder next year and raise the bar. This is only the beginning. Thank you all for believing in me. Wishing everyone a safe, Happy Holiday season and a healthy & prosperous New Year!!

Much Love,

Maurice

A Blog Supreme/NPR Jazz - Top 10 Jazz Albums Of 2010

Maurice Brown, 'The Cycle Of Love'

Trumpeter Maurice Brown came up in jazz in Chicago; he found his way to New Orleans for a while, including through Hurricane Katrina, and he now lives in New York. Judging from his second album, The Cycle Of Love, he seems to have picked up various lessons along the way: earthy intelligence, urbane slickness, how to party. The global aesthetic of hip-hop is also present -- Brown works with plenty of R&B and rap artists -- and his band, especially the tenor saxophonist Derek Douget, has a certain bounce (and a few skittering rimshots) in its step. But there's also a clear compositional savvy in the 10 tunes here; it attests to a jazz pedigree. The result is a jazz record that feels like it's from musicians of the hip-hop generation -- and compromises neither genre.

by PATRICK JARENWATTANANON

Jet Magazine- 4 young, talented instrumentalists who are rocking the music world.

Style: A new version of soul-jazz. My music is combines elements of jazz, hip-hop, R&B and soul. “I think what separates me from other artists in my field is that I'm also a producer. That means I can see the big picture a lot faster than the average artist.”

Mobettabrown's T.B.A. w/ DJ Logic

I'm really excited for T.B.A.'s Manhattan debut!! T.B.A. is my newest project. We are on a mission is to create spontaneous improvisations over deeply soulful grooves. This means that every song we play is created on the spot!

Another cool thing about this group is that we are very unpredictable. T.B.A. weaves in and out of different genres seamlessly, playing rememberable melodies that you will go home singing. Dj Logic will be on the one's & two's adding his special ingredients into the mix. We will be rockin' the Metropolitan Room, Thursday September 16th at 7:00 -8:30pm. See y'all there!

Chicago Tribune -CD Review - The Cycle of Love

Maurice Brown's latest

Former Chicago trumpeter Maurice Brown makes a significant artistic leap forward in his sophomore CD, "The Cycle of Love" (Brown Records). Though Brown's liner notes offer a detailed description of the narrative arc behind the music, these 10 tunes ultimately require no back story. Many of the cuts, such as "Fly By Night" and "Merry Go Round," show Brown's gifts for crafting indelible melodic hooks. But others, such as "Misunderstood" and the title cut, bristle with extended passages of rigorous, sinewy improvisation. Even so, a pervasive lyricism drives most of Brown's work on trumpet, with comparably fervent playing from tenor saxophonist Derek Douget. Essentially, Brown and his quintet have found the place where jazz, soul and pop converge, shortchanging none of these languages but drawing eloquently from each of them.

hreich@tribune.com

JAZZTIMES - CD REVIEW - MAURICE BROWN The Cycle of Love (Brown)

Six years after the release of his promising debut CD, Hip to Bop, 29-year-old trumpeter Maurice Brown returns with a solid sophomore outing. A crossover disc in the best sense of the word, The Cycle of Love contains 10 simply stated, deeply soulful original tunes that touch back to ‘70s R&B while taking the pulse of today’s streets. The catchy pop-songs hooks and hip-hop-inflected beats seem to call out for lyrics, either written or freestyle, but left as instrumentals their subtleties are allowed to shine.

Brown’s quintet has a glorious ensemble sound. Drummer Joe Blaxx is always on the move: His complex, off-center rhythms have layers of cymbals and staccato beat dropping reminiscent of drum machines, while Solomon Dorsey’s casually bent bass tones soften the groove. They merge seamlessly with pianist Chris Rob, whose lush cascades and sparkling jumps provide elegance and dynamism to the rich, compelling atmospheres of the slow-jam title track, the hard-edged “Misunderstood” and the mechanized bounce of “Time Tick Tock”

Up front, Brown makes every note count. He’s not given to pyrotechnics, but his meaty tone packs a wallop once he gets heated up, jabbing repeatedly at a single note or phrase, then hopscotching forward. Saxophonist Derek Douget offers a pleasing contrast to Brown’s muscularity. His breathy, weaving lines trend to recede in the uptempo numbers, but sound oh-so-cool at slower tempos.

A disk that grows mmore dear with repeat listens, The Cycle of Love is one of the better releases in the current”back to soul” movement. Fans of recent releases by Nicholas Payton, Roy Hargrove, or Corey Wilkes will find an easy and rewarding connection to this highly appealing music.

-FORREST DYLAN BRYANT

A Blog Supreme/NPR Jazz

A Modern Jazz Music Video (And It's Not Lame, Either) : A Blog Supreme : NPR

Featuring a mid-winter mime in DUMBO, steampunk mad science, Maurice Brown's mini-me surrogate and potential floorcest rendered in a dream sequence. Oh, and the music -- "Time Tick Tock" from the Maurice Brown Effect -- is pretty hip too.

The tune is "Time Tick Tock," by the Maurice Brown Effect, off The Cycle Of Love. Brown plays trumpet; Derek Douget takes the tenor solo; Chris Rob, Solomon Dorsey, Joe Blaxx are the rhythm section: piano, bass, drums. Unlike this guy, I slept on this record when it came out earlier this year — my loss. It's one of those modern-R&B-influenced jazz discs which doesn't make you wish it just stuck to one genre or the other. They're great live, too...



by PATRICK JARENWATTANANON