Jazz Articles about Adan Hagley

Adan Hagley: Insomnia

by Nigel Campbell
October 30, 2019

The Trinidad-born Nobel laureate, VS Naipaul, implied that Trinidad and Tobago was a country of mimic men, but its geographic location in the world and social history makes the pull of myriad sonic and rhythmic influences inevitable. Adan Hagley on his debut album, Insomnia, has made those connections from his wide listening palette. He cites Michel Camilo and Snarky Puppy as influences, but you also hear Ray Holman's melodic template, Élan Parlē's early harmonic experiments and the late Raf Robertson's ...