Event

Etienne Charles Presents: Creole Christmas 2016

Etienne Charles and his band perform selections from his album, 'Creole Christmas'!

Doors at 6:30PM
Music at 7PM
Tickets: $15 advance, $20 door

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ETIENNE CHARLES: Recording Artist, Composer, Arranger, Assistant Professor of Jazz Studies, Michigan State University

..Etienne Charles exhibits both an authentic preservation of the music of his native culture of Trinidad as a composer and bandleader, while broadening our scope of understanding through the collaborative sound of American jazz as it meets new colors, new textures, and new motifs across the world. It will certainly bring more of our public into the jazz audience - Marcus Roberts

An amazing Trumpet player, and Steel Drum player, and Cuatro player...young Trinidadian who has held onto his heritage - Monty Alexander

A daring improviser, Charles also delivers with heart-wrenching lyricism - Jazz Times

had strength and a clear, almost classical sense of thematic organization. - New York Times