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News: Video / DVD

StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: The Creole Soul of Etienne Charles

StLJN Saturday Video Showcase:  The Creole Soul of Etienne Charles

This week, let's get acquainted via video with trumpeter Etienne Charles, who will make his St. Louis debut as a bandleader with a performance next Saturday, March 11 at the Sheldon Concert Hall. Born in Trinidad, the 33-year-old Juilliard graduate has made a name for himself by blending jazz with Caribbean popular music styles including calypso, ...

Article: Album Review

Etienne Charles: San José Suite

Read "San José Suite" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi


Il trombettista di Trinidad conferma d'essere solista e autore raffinato, capace di trovare nuovi motivi d'ispirazione nell'incontro tra il jazz moderno e il folklore dei caraibi. La suite che presenta in questo ultimo disco è un tributo ad alcune popolazioni tradizionali di Trinidad (Nepuyo), Costa Rica (Boruca) e della California (Muwekma Ohlone) e alle loro musiche. ...

Album

Soon

Label: Detroit Music Factory
Released: 2016
Track listing: Be My Love Soon Grew's Tune The Second Star to the Right First Love, Only Love Moon River Isfahan So in Love Cannonball More Than You Know Everything I Love CC Rider Body and Soul

Album

San José Suite

Label: Culture Shock Music
Released: 2016
Track listing: Boruca; Limon; Cahuita; Hyarima - 14 October 1637; Revolt; Juego de Los Diablitos; Muwekma; Song for Minh; Gold Rush 2.0; Speed City Intro; Speed City; Speed City (reprise).

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Article: Album Review

Michael Dease: All These Hands

Read "All These Hands" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky


Trombonist Michael Dease is never short on ideas, but this one might be his best yet: With All These Hands, Dease traces the early migratory patterns of jazz through his own well-crafted originals. He starts in NOLA and moves along to many a music mecca, including the Mississippi Delta, Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia, Washington D.C., and New ...

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Article: Album Review

Etienne Charles: San José Suite

Read "San José Suite" reviewed by Nigel Campbell


Whenever Trinidadian jazz trumpeter and composer Etienne Charles releases an album, it is an event. In this case, it is his latest opus, the ten-part San José Suite--soon to be performed live in Trinidad and Tobago for the first time on November 20. [The album was released in the US in June 2016 and debuted live ...

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News: Recording

Grammy Nominated Vocalist René Marie's First All-Original LP "Sound of Red" Out Via Motema Music May 13

Grammy Nominated Vocalist René Marie's First All-Original LP "Sound of Red"  Out Via Motema Music May 13

René Marie, the “outrageous” (Wall Street Journal) vocalist has taken the recording process one giant step further with the release of her most personal album on May 13. As the follow-up to 2013’s Grammy award-nominated album I Wanna Be Evil (With Love to Eartha Kitt), Sound of Red is her first album of all-original songs written ...

News: Education

Music Education Monday: A jazz trumpet clinic with Etienne Charles

Music Education Monday: A jazz trumpet clinic with Etienne Charles

Today for Music Education Monday, let's look in via video on a jazz trumpet clinic presented by Etienne Charles. Born in 1983 on the island of Trinidad, Charles has a master's degree from Juilliard and a bachelor's from Florida State University, and currently serves as assistant professor of jazz studies at Michigan State University. As a ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Elio Villafranca at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola on April 16-17 & More!

Elio Villafranca at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola on April 16-17 & More!

ELIO VILLAFRANCA UPCOMING PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE Cuban Pianist Presents Cinqué-Suite of the Caribbean April 16 & April 17 (LIVE WEBCAST) Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola Cinqué-Suite of the Caribbean debuted in The Appel Room in 2015 and was one of the top concerts of the 2014-15 season. Cuban pianist and composer Elio Villafranca ...

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Article: Year in Review

2015: The Year in Jazz

Read "2015: The Year in Jazz" reviewed by Ken Franckling


The year 2015 was a curious blend of ups and downs, with glimmers of optimism offset by its losses. Venues opened to great fanfare, but others closed for a variety of reasons. UNESCO's International Jazz Day became firmly entrenched as the exclamation point on Jazz Appreciation Month activities in April. Daily arts journalism took a hit ...


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