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WHAT’S INSIDE
Welcome All
Like many thing in the world at March 2020 when the global pandemic was declared, Jazz in the Islands isolated and pivoted. But unlike many other ventures, this magazine is linked to Caribbean jazz festival life and the musicans within. These last three years were devastating to many creators. In 2023, we’re back! Festival life resurrected in Barbados, French Guiana, Martinique, Cuba and Haiti. And into 2023, Trinidad and Tobago, St. Lucia, Dominica are set to relaunch their jazz festivals. Resiliance is a Caribbean hallmark and we are here to document it all.
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Nigel A. Campbell Editor nigel@jazz.tt
Departments
2 First Look
Searching for Caribbean jazz beginnings in the UK
30 Caribbean jazz festivals return
33 Three Island Songbirds
38 Album Reviews
Reginald Cyntje, Ronald Boo Hinkson, Jeremy Hector, Josean Jacobo & Tumbao, Ijó, Grégory Privat, Jany McPherson, Jacques Schwarz-Bart, Nubya Garcia, Gonzalo Rubalcaba & Aymée Nuviola, Jesse Ryan, Michael Boothman, Anthony Joseph, Tigana Thomas, Theon Cross, John Arnold, Charlie Halloran, Arnaud Dolmen, Elan Trotman, Joy Lapps, Leon Foster Thomas, Jonathan Michel, Godwin Louis, MizikOpéyi, Raise Scan or click the QR codes below the album to connect to the online digital marketplace.
21 Andy Narell: Steelpan jazz innovator and iconoclast
An American in Paradise, revisited. Steelpan jazz musician pushes the envelope on the sound and music of the steelpan and steelband, and its global spread.
5 Jazz Artists on the Greens Souvenir Programme. 25 March 2023, Trinidad. The premier Caribbean Jazz event in Trinidad and Tobago is here once again. Read the programme in this issue.
The outlier in the pandemic jazz season of 2021. Live, hybrid, alive, homegrown.
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