Latest Creole_jazz Podcast Episodes
Episode 20: Island Jazz Chat with Garvin Blake
Island Jazz Chat - March 31, 2024 00:00 - 1 hourGarvin Blake, pan jazz musician based in New York has re-discovered his intention to preserve and promote the idea of steelpan and jazz as global music. After a pair of significant albums in 1999, Belle Eau Road Blues, and 2015, Parallel Overtones, Blake is now in a place in his life to...
Episode 19: Island Music Chat with Teddyson John
Island Jazz Chat - January 29, 2024 00:00 - 47 minutesSaint Lucian singer Teddyson John returns to Trinidad with his Stripped: Carnival Magic show in 2024, in which he transforms his deep catalogue of soca hits of more than a decade into jazzy smooth songs that discard the aesthetic of an energetic Carnival for a sophisticated tropical exp...
Episode 19: Creole Christmas Chat with Etienne Charles
Island Jazz Chat - November 11, 2023 00:00 - 41 minutesIsland Jazz Chat host, Nigel Campbell chats with globe-trotting Trinidadian musician and Guggenheim Fellow Etienne Charles about his upcoming performance in Trinidad and Tobago, A Creole Christmas Gift: Concert and Cocktails presented by HADCO Experiences. This event will showcase the e...
Episode 18: Island Jazz Chat with Etienne Charles
Island Jazz Chat - September 29, 2023 00:42 - 59 minutesEtienne Charles is a creole soul. A Caribbean intellectual and sublime musician who positions the "native gaze" to reflect a new perspective on the wider Americas beyond a boundary. From Trinidad, with a trumpet in his hand and a rhythm in his veins, he has, over an 18-year recording ca...
Episode 17: Island Jazz Chat with Jacques Schwarz-Bart
Island Jazz Chat - January 16, 2023 00:00 - 1 hourJacques Schwarz-Bart from Guadeloupe can be considered a Caribbean jazz explorer who is mining musical histories and creating new experiences based on tradition, heritage, spirituality, and a full understanding of the Caribbean legacy of being at the centre of many cultural moments in t...
Episode 16: Island Jazz Chat with Leon 'Foster' Thomas
Island Jazz Chat - January 09, 2023 00:00 - 1 hourLeon 'Foster' Thomas, contemporary steelpan jazz musician and composer from Trinidad, and at present, Caribbean Jazz researcher now based in the UK, chats on his career and the continuing journey to move the steelpan to the front of the jazz bandstand with his recordings and performance...
Episode 15: Island Jazz Chat with Richard Bailey
Island Jazz Chat - December 14, 2022 00:00 - 1 hourRichard Bailey, born in Guyana (then British Guiana), raised in Trinidad, and long resident in England, is the go-to drummer for major recording and touring artists in the UK since the 1970s. Jamming and recording with the likes of Jeff Beck and Bob Marley as a teenager, Bailey was a pi...
Episode 14: Island Jazz Chat with Chantal Esdelle
Island Jazz Chat - October 05, 2022 00:00 - 1 hourTrinidadian composer and educator Chantal Esdelle, a Berklee College of Music graduate, holds an important place among jazz musicians in the islands, as she is one of, if not the only female band leader who is a renowned pianist there. A multifaceted individual — performer, producer, pr...
Episode 13: Island Jazz Chat with Andy Narell
Island Jazz Chat - September 26, 2022 00:00 - 1 hourAndy Narell, globe-trotting and pioneering steelpan jazz musician, composer and arranger chats about his beginnings in the world of steelpan in the 1960s, and the evolution of the sound that he is leading in the 2020s with a new sample library of steelpan instruments created by the lege...
Episode 12: Island Jazz Chat with Victor Provost
Island Jazz Chat - September 15, 2022 00:00 - 1 hourVictor Provost, from St John, USVI, has been variously described as a "rising steelpan master...whose refreshing melodic approach to soloing on the pan is wholly steeped in the jazz tradition," and "living proof of the nuance and versatility of the [steelpan]." In this chat, Victor disc...
Episode 11: Island Jazz Chat with Annise Hadeed
Island Jazz Chat - August 17, 2022 00:00 - 1 hourPanman, steelpan virtuoso, steeldrum musician. Just don't call Annise 'Halfers' Hadeed a "pannist". He is more than that! This important musician and recording artist from Trinidad and Tobago, now resident in the U.K., has been blazing a trail in the jazz scene there, as well as contrib...
Episode 10: Island Jazz Chat with Cameron Pierre
Island Jazz Chat - August 09, 2022 00:00 - 1 hourGuitarist Cameron Pierre has come full circle returning to his native Dominica after a multi-decade recording and performing career in the UK. After establishing an important Caribbean jazz presence there, with six albums produced, he reflects on the journey to this point. Beginning in ...
Episode 9: Island Jazz Chat with Theron Shaw
Island Jazz Chat - July 28, 2022 00:00 - 1 hourReticent. Diffident. Two words to describe the personality of guitarist Theron Shaw of Trinidad and Tobago. Another pair of apt adjectives would be determined and inventive. In a revealing conversation, we get into what made Shaw the popular choice for the islands' premier jazz guitaris...
Episode 8: Island Jazz Chat with Clifford Charles
Island Jazz Chat - July 22, 2022 00:00 - 45 minutesTrinidadian guitarist Clifford Charles describes his music as "smooth soca jazz." Grounded in the sounds and language of Trinidad, his liking for transforming the music of Carnival, the popular sound of Trinidad, into a contemporary jazz idiom sets him apart from other Caribbean jazz gu...
Episode 5: Island Jazz Chat with Reginald Cyntje
Island Jazz Chat - June 16, 2022 00:00 - 1 hourJazz trombonist, Reginald Cyntje is the ultimate Caribbean jazz musician. Born in Dominica, raised in St Thomas, US Virgin Islands, of Curaçaoan heritage, he is the epitome of a Caribbean musician making it in the United States. With the release of his sixth album, Healing, Reginald cha...
Episode 7: Island Jazz Chat with John Arnold
Island Jazz Chat - June 16, 2022 00:00 - 1 hourJohn Arnold is the pioneering musician, recording artist and jazz festival coordinator on the island of Tobago. As a recording artist, he has helmed half a dozen albums that play with the idea of Caribbean jazz as original music, including his latest, Jazz Standards in the Tambrin Sauce...
Episode 6: Island Jazz Chat with Michael Boothman
Island Jazz Chat - June 22, 2021 19:09 - 1 hourMichael Boothman is the personification of excellence in the arts in Trinidad and Tobago. Pioneering, innovative and consistently successful as a performer, composer, arranger and recording artist, Boothman continues his 50-plus year career that showcases a number of firsts and mileston...
Island Jazz Chat with Reginald Cyntje
Island Jazz Chat - November 18, 2020 00:00 - 1 hourJazz trombonist, Reginald Cyntje is the ultimate Caribbean jazz musician. Born in Dominica, raised in St Thomas, US Virgin Islands, of Curaçaoan heritage, he is the epitome of a Caribbean musician making it in the United States. With the release of his sixth album, Healing, Reginald chats with ...
Episode 4: Island Jazz Chat with Elan Trotman
Island Jazz Chat - September 30, 2019 17:29 - 39 minutesElan Trotman, Boston-based contemporary jazz saxophonist from Barbados discusses the business of jazz with Jazz in the Islands. In 2019, he released his new album Dear Marvin, a saxophone tribute to the late great Marvin Gaye on the Woodward Avenue label. We get the Caribbean-American p...
Island Jazz Chat with Elan Trotman
Island Jazz Chat - September 30, 2019 00:00 - 39 minutesElan Trotman, Boston-based contemporary jazz saxophonist from Barbados discusses the business of jazz with Jazz in the Islands. In 2019, he released his new album Dear Marvin, a saxophone tribute to the late great Marvin Gaye on the Woodward Avenue label. We get the Caribbean-American perspectiv...
Episode 3: Island Jazz Chat with Clive Zanda
Island Jazz Chat - January 28, 2019 22:28 - 1 hourThe father of modern kaisojazz, Trinidadian pianist Clive Zanda recounts a career spanning from his days in England in the 1960s innovating with the fusion of calypso in the language of jazz, to his return to Trinidad and his collaboration with Scofield Pilgrim, Bajan-born kaisojazz the...
Island Jazz Chat with Clive Zanda
Island Jazz Chat - January 28, 2019 00:00 - 1 hourThe father of modern kaisojazz, Trinidadian pianist Clive Zanda recounts a career spanning from his days in England in the 1960s innovating with the fusion of calypso in the language of jazz, to his return to Trinidad and his collaboration with Scofield Pilgrim, Bajan-born kaisojazz theorist an...
Episode 2: Island Jazz Chat with Élan Parlē
Island Jazz Chat - January 12, 2019 01:53 - 1 hourComposer, producer and recording artist, Michael 'Ming' Low Chew Tung is called by Jazz in the Islands, "the architect of the new calypso jazz in the 21st century in Trinidad and Tobago" for his band/brand Élan Parlē. In this in-depth and revealing chat, 'Ming' gives an oral autobiograp...
Island Jazz Chat with Élan Parlē
Island Jazz Chat - January 12, 2019 00:00 - 1 hourComposer, producer and recording artist, Michael 'Ming' Low Chew Tung is called by Jazz in the Islands, "the architect of the new calypso jazz in the 21st century in Trinidad and Tobago" for his band/brand Élan Parlē. In this in-depth and revealing chat, 'Ming' gives an oral autobiography that ...
Episode 1: Island Jazz Chat with Rudy Smith
Island Jazz Chat - November 01, 2018 23:46 - 24 minutesPioneering steelpan jazz musician, Rudy "Two Left" Smith chats with Jazz in the Islands editor, Nigel A. Campbell, about his career. His beginnings in Trinidad, his sojourn into Europe to perform and ultimately record are discussed. Landmark albums like his Otinku with the Modern Sound ...
Island Jazz Chat with Rudy Smith
Island Jazz Chat - November 01, 2018 23:46 - 24 minutesPioneering steelpan jazz musician, Rudy "Two Left" Smith chats with Jazz in the Islands editor, Nigel A. Campbell, about his career. His beginnings in Trinidad, his sojourn into Europe to perform and ultimately record are discussed. Landmark albums like his Otinku with the Modern Sound Quintet ...
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