Abram Wilson, a jazz trumpeter and acclaimed American composer from New Orleans, which helped a new generation of jazz artists in Britain, playing a kind of cultural attaché of the cradle of jazz, died on 9 June in London. He was 38 years.
He died several days after stopping a series of concerts and recording equipment in a hospital with stomach pains, his wife, Jennie Cashman, said the London Evening Standard newspaper. The cause was cancer, said his wife.
Mr. Wilson, who grew up in New Orleans and its rich musical traditions hybrid was known for his combination of musical forms - Quicksilver mix of bebop, with storms of hip-hop songs of Stevie Wonder sang with the heart of his modest voice Domingo.
He wove into the plot of his most ambitious music. The autobiographical concept album of 2007, "Ride! Wheel to the Modern Day Delta," for example, was a kind of work of a jazz trumpeter who tries to escape his roots to become a jazz superstar hip-hop, but returns to "sometimes to the extreme.
While British make a series of awards to his work, including the BBC Jazz Award for best new CD in 2007, Mr. Wilson has demonstrated a commitment to their roots of jazz Americans often faced with a fervor almost missionary, music critics, he said.
On stage, between numbers, sometimes gave impromptu lessons in the history of the many streams that flowed into the jazz music of New Orleans.
In cities where loans are made English, who often took his hand in schools to talk about the history of music, teaching the basics of improvisation and give you a flavor of the music of many They had never heard.
"I speak of the story - how people were brought from Africa to work on cotton plantations in America, and how the blues was created, and how he brought jazz," said an interview with a British newspaper in 2008. "Jazz is so different. People should be introduced to it."
Jason Toynbee, an expert on immigration cultural influences at the Open University of London, has described Mr. Wilson as a figure "very important" in the British music scene of jazz known as Black. "Approaching jazz as a form of music in evolution, but also as an important cultural force in history," he said in an interview last week.
In a melting pot of British jazz musicians from Europe, the Caribbean and Africa, added Mr. Toynbee, Mr. Wilson has seen his role, at least in part, as a representative of the American sensibility.
Abram Wilson was born in Fort Smith, Arkansas, August 30, 1973, the eldest of six children of Doris and Willie Wilson. After his family moved to New Orleans, was inspired to learn the trumpet, with local musicians to visit their school.
But he credited his parents with his decision to make music his profession. When I was a teenager, said he told his father that he was considering becoming a lawyer, a doctor or an engineer. His father replied: "You know what I will take a screen test."
Mr. Wilson attended the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (Wynton Marsalis and Harry Connick Jr. also studied there), and graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University before receiving a master in performance and composition at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester.
In New York, he formed his own quartet and played with trumpeter Roy Hargrove Big Band, the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra and rhythm and blues singer Ruth Brown.
After moving to London in 2002, Mr. Wilson has made three albums for the records of dunes, the British jazz: "Jazz Warrior" (2004), "! Ride ferris wheel to the Modern Day Delta "(2007) and" Life Tables "(2009).
He is survived by his wife, his parents, four brothers, a sister and his grandmother, Oradell Barker.
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