Monday December 12, 2016
From Albuquerque Journal
‘Creole Christmas’ a trip through the tropics
By: David Steinberg
Etienne Charles likes to cook up a gumbo of Christmas music.
Charles, a trumpeter from Trinidad and Tobago, brings together his own jazz interpretations of traditional American, European and Caribbean holiday tunes into a seasonal concert called ‘Creole Christmas.’
‘The show is a combination of sounds in the New World,’ Charles said in a phone interview.
The source of those sounds can be rhythms derived from such Caribbean island nations as Trinidad, Jamaica, Haiti and Martinique.
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