Etienne Charles is using jazz to shed light on a painful chapter in New York City’s past — and remember a community of Black and brown people who were displaced from their homes over seven decades ago ...

Carnival in the Caribbean, a riotous spectacle of drums, rhythm, dance, color and phantasmagorical characters, inspires jazz trumpeter and composer Etienne Charles. “I have always thought of Carnival ...

Trinidadian-American trumpet player Etienne Charles plays at South Miami Dade Cultural Arts Center for the first time as part of the Miami Nice Jazz Festival! Perhaps more than any other musician of ...

A pair of concerts at Overtown's Lyric Theater will include talks on the influence of West African rhythms on American music. Ask the average person to pinpoint the birthplace of American jazz and ...

Wednesday’s Athenaeum Jazz at TSRI concert here by Trinidadian trumpeter Etienne Charles and his dance-happy band, Creole Soul, will be precedent-setting for several reasons.. Daniel Atkinson, who ...

Trinidad-born Etienne Charles has been fortunate in his associates during his development as a jazz musician. One of the first friends he made on arrival in the U.S.A. in the early 2000s to study at ...

What do you get when you blend smooth, American jazz with the electrifying sights and sounds of Trinidad’s Carnival? Well, thanks to Julliard-trained percussionist and composer Etienne Charles, ...

Etienne Charles is taking over the JAS Cafe at the Cooking School of Aspen for World Cup weekend. The Trinidad-born trumpeter is planning upbeat, dance-friendly shows with an eight-piece calypso band.

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 ...