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Hilary Noble

Hilary Noble is woodwind player, Afro-Latin percussionist, composer and music educator living in the Boston area. He has performed all over the U.S, Europe, and in Puerto Rico. His music has been played on radio stations internationally and featured prominently on local programs such as WGBH’s “Eric in the Evening”, on which he has performed live with his band Enclave. In 2008 Enclave received a grant from Chamber Music America to compose an Afro-Cuban jazz suite: the resulting work was premiered live on WGBH and at the Jazz Gallery in New York City. Artists Hilary Noble has played and recorded with include Bobby Sanabria’s Ascención, Esperanza Spalding, John Santos, Ray Vega, Chris Washburne, Charles Neville, Bo Diddley, Eric Krasno, Entrain, Max Creek, Bob Moses, Robin Kenyatta, Clifford Thornton, and Alvin Queen.

Awards

2008 Chamber Music America Grant for Composing a Multimovement Work for Small Ensemble

Anishana: Corners of the Sky

Read "Corners of the Sky" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
May 27, 2020

What a pleasant surprise. When a group named Anishana records an album built around Native American themes and concepts, the inclination is to withhold judgment while preparing for the worst. Yes, Anishana is an Algonquin-derived term meaning “where do you come from?" And yes, Anishana loosely bases the music in Corners of the Sky on Native American customs and beliefs. The good news is that those indigenous Americans evidently had jazz chops no one suspected and swung like plumage in ...

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Album Review

Hilary Noble & Rebecca Cline: Enclave

Read "Enclave" reviewed by Michael P. Gladstone

by Michael P. Gladstone
October 27, 2005

This album offers some very good Latin (and world) jazz performed by two Americans and their quartet but loses some points, in my opinion, for its free jazz aspirations. Hilary Noble, of Boston origin, has studied with George Garzone and logged some good experience with New York City Latin bandleader Bobby Sanabria. This is his second album, and it stands in the same general footprints of another saxophonist who has made a successful career of the study of Cuban music ...

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Hilary Noble: Noble Savage

Read "Noble Savage" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
March 1, 2003

One has to admire the energy that is poured so lavishly into many albums of Afro-Cuban Jazz. Noble Savage bristles with vitality as it explores the many facets of Caribbean-influenced music, with side trips to Australia, home of saxophonist / conguero Hilary Noble’s forebears, and New Orleans. Much of that firepower springs from drummer / percussionist Bobby Sanabria’s perseverance as well as from Noble’s remarkable mastery of the congas, which he plays on half a dozen of the eleven numbers. ...

Performance / Tour

Hilary Noble & Rebecca Cline appearing at the 3rd Annual Nuyorican JazzFest Sunday, Nov. 20, 2005

Source: All About Jazz
November 3, 2005

November 3, 2005 To: Listings/Critics/Features From: JAZZ PROMO SERVICES Press Contact: JIM EIGO, [email protected] Hilary Noble & Rebecca Cline “Enclave" CD Release Performance 3rd Annual Nuyorican JazzFest San Juan, Puerto Rico Sunday, Nov. 20, 2005 http://www.nuyoricancafepr.com/ “Enclave", the first collaboration of Boston-based saxophonist Hilary Noble and pianist Rebecca Cline, is one of the most exciting new artist discoveries in contemporary Latin jazz. Their dynamic quartet combines rhythms from Cuba, Brazil, Argentina and North America with bop, jazz rock fusion and ...
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Performance / Tour

Big Bang (Tonight) Hilary Noble & Rebecca Cline + Richie Hart Trio (Tue) The Songwriter's Beat (Wed) & More at the Cornelia Street Cafe

Source: All About Jazz
October 17, 2005

October 17, 2005 To: Listings/Critics/Features From: JAZZ PROMO SERVICES Press Contact: JIM EIGO, [email protected] Cornelia Street Cafe 29 Cornelia Street Greenwich Village, NY 10014 Tel: 212-989-9319 Fax: 212-243-4207 Web: corneliastreetcafe.com between West 4th and Bleecker Sts, Greenwich Village 1,9 Subway to Sheridan Square; A, C, E, B, D, F to West 4th St. “a culinary as well as a cultural landmark" Mayoral Proclamation, City of New York 1987 This Week at Cornelia Street Cafe Oct. 17 thg Oct. 23 Mon ...
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Zoho Music Double Header Hilary Noble & Rebecca Cline + Richie Hart Trio Cornelia St Cafe Tue Oct 18

Source: All About Jazz
September 28, 2005

September 28, 2005 To: Listings/Critics/Features From: JAZZ PROMO SERVICES Press Contact: JIM EIGO, [email protected] Cornelia Street Cafe 29 Cornelia Street Greenwich Village, NY 10014 Tel: 212-989-9319 Fax: 212-243-4207 Web: corneliastreetcafe.com between West 4th and Bleecker Sts, Greenwich Village 1,9 Subway to Sheridan Square; A, C, E, B, D, F to West 4th St. “a culinary as well as a cultural landmark" Mayoral Proclamation, City of New York 1987 Tue Oct 18 ZOHO MUSIC DOUBLE HEADER HILARY NOBLE & REBECCA CLINE ...
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Recording

Dino Govoni And Hilary Noble Lead The New Big-City Jazz Sounds Of The Whaling City Sound Label

Source: All About Jazz
November 13, 2002

Saxophonists Dino Govoni and Hilary Noble star in Whaling City Sounds' two latest releases. Both feature the kind of sultry sophistication and edgy execution for which the fledgling imprint is fast becoming known. Govoni, who has been perfecting his artistry on both the Boston-New York scenes for two decades, is following up his debut as a bandleader, Breakin' Out, with the live jazz of his new disc In The Library. Boston's Noble, an adventurous saxophonist and percussionist with an Afro-Cuban ...
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"“Noble Savage”, only the start of something very, very good." (Bob Young, Boston Herald) "A talent deserving wider recognition, his playing is intense, creative, sublime, nuanced, as are his compositions which provide great vehicles for the soloist and nice twists and turns for the rhythm section..." (Bobby Sanabria, Musician, Educator and Host of WBGO "Latin Jazz Cruise") "Headed by trumpet master Ray Vega... the ensemble included the explosive trombonist Chris Washburne and killer saxophonist Hilary Noble in the front line." (nippertown.com) "...may open your eyes to a whole new horizon of endless musical possibilities, Hats off to Hilary Noble!" (Jazz Improv) While the excitement of the Latin rhythmic ambience is the recording's most striking feature, several very fine improvised solos also contribute to its appeal

Primary Instrument

Saxophone, tenor

Location

Boston

Willing to teach

Beginner to advanced

Credentials/Background

Tenured teacher at Boston Public Schools, taught World Music at Art Institute of New England, accompanist at Boston Conservatory/Berklee College of Music.