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Etienne Charles: Kaiso
by Nicholas F. Mondello
With Kaiso, trumpeter Etienne Charles revisits his robust Trinidad-Tobago roots, brilliantly exposing their beauty, mystery and fascinating flavors. The fruits of Charles and crew's labor blossom from multiple Caribbean grooves into a highly energized performance, with more jazz-tinged interpretations than his prior outing, the highly acclaimed Folklore (Self-Produced, 2009). The title tune, from ...
Etienne Charles: Kaiso
by Dan Bilawsky
The names Aldwyn Roberts and Slinger Francisco might not ring a bell in jazz circles, but trumpeter Etienne Charles' Kaiso helps to rectify that issue. Charles pays tribute to these two giants of calypso music, better known respectively as Lord Kitchener and Mighty Sparrow, and explores the fusion of Caribbean music, Latin rhythms, the sounds of ...
Ottawa Jazz Festival 2010: Days 4-6, June 27-29, 2010
by John Kelman
Days 1-3 | Days 4-6 | Days 7-9 | Days 10-11Kenny Garrett Presents / John Scofield and the Piety Street Band Ralph Towner and Paolo Fresu / Medeski, Martin and Wood John Geggie and Friends / Youn Sun Nah / Manu Katché TD Ottawa International Jazz Festival Ottawa, Ontario, Canada June 27-29, 2010 ...
Ottawa Jazz Festival 2010: Days 1-3, June 24-26, 2010
by John Kelman
Days 1-3 | Days 4-6 | Days 7-9 | Days 10-11 Mikko Innanen & InnkvisitioEtienne Charles and Folklore / Bill Frisell's Beautiful DreamersBill Frisell 858 Quartet TD Ottawa International Jazz Festival Ottawa, Ontario, Canada June 24-26, 2010 Back in April 2010, when the TD Ottawa International ...
Etienne Charles: Folklore
by AAJ Italy Staff
Etienne Charles è un giovane trombettista di Trinidad, che già col suo primo lavoro (Culture Shock) offriva un'identità in grado di fondere in modo convincente la cultura del jazz statunitense e il ricco apparato ritmico, timbrico e melodico delle sue Antille. Con Folkore l'operazione raggiunge un nuovo e brillante livello di riuscita, presentando un'opera che è ...
Sonny Rollins Elected as Member of American Academy of Arts & Sciences
by Jack Bowers
This month's most welcome news has nothing to do with big bands but everything to do with artistry and excellence: saxophonist and jazz icon Sonny Rollins has been elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. The Academy, a center for independent policy research (I don't quite understand what that has to do ...
Folklore
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2009
Track listing: Folklore; Douens; Dance with la Diablesse; Laja who?; Mama Malade;
Soucouyant; Mysterieuse; Mama d'lo; Santimanite; Papa Bois; Folklore
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Adam Rapa: Life on the Road
by Nicholas F. Mondello
In Italian, rapa translates, ever so blandly, as turnip. In the dialect of music and trumpeting, Rapa probably translates as supernova. Reminiscent of the Hubble Telescope's display of spectacular images of galaxies far away, their beauty exploding in viewer's eyes and hearts, Adam Rapa's Life on the Road is a prismatic and almost spectacular CD. On ...
JazzWeek Radio Chart: August 31, 2009
TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 1 1 Jackie Ryan Doozy (Open Art) 266 248 +18 0 60 1 6 2 2 3 Bobby Broom Bobby Broom Plays For Monk (Origin) 207 209 -2 2 53 2 12 3 28 36 Allen Toussaint The Bright Mississippi (Nonesuch) 185 92 +93 2 ...
JazzWeek Radio Chart: August 24, 2009
TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 1 1 Jackie Ryan Doozy (Open Art) 248 266 -18 0 61 1 5 2 3 4 Bobby Broom Bobby Broom Plays For Monk (Origin) 209 194 +15 0 51 2 11 3 3 3 Christian McBride & Inside Straight Kind Of Brown (Mack Avenue) 183 ...
