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Newsome, Sewell, Harris Trio

Saxophonist Sam Newsome spent the first four years of the 1990s as the featured tenor saxophonist with Donald Byrd’s band and Terence Blanchard’s quintet. He founded Sam Newsome & Global Unity (first called Motivic Development) and has now established himself as a leading player and, in the process, transformed earlier blues sounds and written tunes that include Japanese, Moroccan, and Indonesian scales. His recordings on soprano sax include the self-titled “Sam Newsome & Global Unity” on the Columbia/Sony label. Guitarist Marvin Sewell started out playing blues, gospel, soul, rock, and fusion music in Chicago “basement bands,” as well as acoustic guitar in a church guitar band. After playing in the Malcolm X Community College Big Band, he began to perform with famous Chicago musicians including Von Freeman, Ramsey Lewis, Billy Branch, Jody Christian, Big Time Sarah, and Barbara LaShore, and continued his studies at Chicago’s Roosevelt University.

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Watch Past Performances

Newsome, Sewell, Harris Trio 9/26/02: Newsome, Sewell, Harris Trio

Newsome/Sewell/Harris Trio preview their Blues to Africa tour. Part of the Kennedy Center-Department of State Jazz Ambassadors series.

Newsome, Sewell, Harris Trio

Newsome/Sewell/Harris Trio preview their Blues to Africa tour. Part of the Kennedy Center-Department of State Jazz Ambassadors series.

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