Etienne Charles launches ‘Folklore’ at JaLC, July 21-25 (updated with November review of Folklore in JazzTimes)

Trinidad
Trinidadian trumpet phenom, Etienne Charles, launches his brand new CD release ‘Folklore‘ from Tuesday, July 21 through 25 at Dizzy’s Club Cola, the bamboo lined ‘intimate room‘ that presides five stories above Central Park at the Home of Jazz at Lincoln Center, Broadway at 60th Street.
The eleven tracks of the Folklore CD will take the listener [...]

Sherry Winston blew a fine breeze at Jazz on the Hill 2008

VI (Br.)
Performed on May 16, 2008
St. Mary’s, Virgin Gorda
There is something to be said about artists, up on stage, being able to connect, eyeball to eyeball if you will, with their audiences down below. The Jazz on the Hill audiences assembled at St. Mary’s School on Virgin Gorda have tended to be far [...]

3rd Annual Montserrat Calabash Festival 2008 winds down (updated)

Montserrat
updated July 24, 2008
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Guess which Caribbean island had the biggest Jazz event of last weekend?  OK, there was Jazz happening everywhere.  But would you have guessed that Montserrat hosted Paul Lunga on Sunday, July 20?  I guess not.
 
Trumpeter Paul Lunga, known in his native Zimbabwe as the “King of the Jazz Horns” headlined a cast of artistes [...]