THOMAS MARRIOTT

Thomas Marriott biography
Trumpeter Thomas (Paul) Marriott (born Seattle, WA, 16 December 1975) grew up in musical family: his grandfather, Robert Reese Marriott, was a stride pianist born 1910 in Seattle and his grandmother, Jean McClean Marriott, was a classical pianist born in 1903. Both were musicians by profession. Thomas's sister Rebecca Jean Marriott is a trumpet player. His brother David McClean Marriott Jr. is a trombonist.
Thomas is a graduate of Garfield High School, Seattle WA 1994 and a graduate of the University of Washington, 1999 (BA in Jazz Studies After winning the prestigious Carmine Caruso Jazz Trumpet Competition in 1999, Marriott headed east from Seattle to New York where he gained initial acclaim through his work with Maynard Ferguson's Big Bop Nouveau band. Marriott completed 3 world tours with Ferguson and then continued to work in New York and on the road with the likes of Rosemary Clooney, Joe Locke, The Tito Puente Orchestra, Brian Lynch, The Chico O'Farrill Orchestra, Eric Reed, Les Brown and the Band of Renown, Kenny Kirkland, Charlie Hunter, Ritchie "Alto Madness" Cole, and many others.
He keeps coming up with great ideas, too, with his Willie Nelson Project veering through the country songwriter's oeuvre in a thrilling thrall. Meanwhile, he's been working on his new chamber ensemble, at the same time as he's been driving his harder-bop Flexicon quintet and then two new sessions coming from Origin Records, Marriott's first set of his own compositions (Constraints and Liberations) and then a churning Hammond B-3 set with Gary Versace tackling the piano on the former and the B-3 on the latter. As is clear, Marriott has no trouble with territory, and his new chamber ensemble will further confirm the matter.