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Creole

Etienne Charles · 2013

Context

Title track of Creole Soul, the fourth album by Trinidadian trumpeter Etienne Charles, released in 2013 on Culture Shock Music. The piece combines a Haitian Kongo drum rhythm with electric guitar and reflects his first trip to Haiti, in 2012.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Antillean jazz (biguine, gwoka), Latin jazz, Afro-Cuban. Among the origins and influences of Antillean jazz: Afro-diasporic roots, New Orleans jazz, Latin jazz, Afro-Cuban.

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