Island Jazz Chat
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Podcast Overview
<p>A podcast featuring conversations with Caribbean jazz and steelpan jazz musicians based in the islands and the diaspora.</p>
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Publishing Since
11/1/2018
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Recent Episodes
August 10, 2024
Episode 21: Island Jazz Chat with Anthony Pierre
<p>Anthony Pierre represents a pioneering effort of a Caribbean musician to establish a sustained island jazz presence in the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. That multi-decade journey has resulted, by the 1990s, in the formation of the Caribbean jazz sextet <a href="https://kalabash.com"><strong>Kalabash</strong></a>, which focused on "using the steel drum as a lead voice in a jazz ensemble, while experimenting with the layering of rich jazz harmonies over the folk and popular rhythms of the Caribbean, from reggae, son and salsa in the north, to calypso, soca, rapso and zouk from the Eastern Caribbean." With two albums under the band's belt, the self-titled debut in 2001, and the follow-up, <em>Keep Them Close</em> in 2013, Pierre relates the historical journey to establish a popular contemporary jazz fusion outfit with an island vibe within the metropolitan and increasingly multicultural space that is Canada's largest city. <em>Tue, 26 Mar, 2024.</em></p>
July 23, 2024
Episode 21: Island Jazz Chat with Vaughnette Bigford
<p><a href="https://vaughnettebigford.com">Vaughnette Bigford</a> is the <em>Creole Chanteuse</em>, the island songbird who "has made the local [Trinidad and Tobago, and the Caribbean] songbook the new jazz standard in the Caribbean...the premier jazz song stylist in these islands whose palette knows no boundaries. Tone, beauty, presence: the definition of the New World African." An apt description from the pages of <em>Jazz in the Islands</em> magazine that also signals an artist ready to make the leap outwards and internationally. We chat with Vaughnette about her recording and live performance career, and her growing reputation regionally. Her move towards concert design and promotion for her art is a winner that links Caribbean fashion and music in a way that suggests a tropical Met Gala aesthetic. An international career beckons. <em>Sat, 20 Jul 2024 </em></p>
March 31, 2024
Episode 20: Island Jazz Chat with Garvin Blake
<p>Garvin 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, <em>Belle Eau Road Blues</em>, and 2015, <em>Parallel Overtones</em>, Blake is now in a place in his life to continue to record and let the music of the steelpan be the 'new voice' in the conversation that is jazz. <em>Island Jazz Chat</em> catches up with Blake on this annual Carnival return to Trinidad to speak about his career, his work with South African Tony Cedras, Vincentian Frankie McIntosh, and a number of important American musicians on the creation of new music for jazz ensembles with a starring role for the steelpan. <em>Sat, 17 Feb 2024</em></p>
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