Trinidad-born trumpeter Etienne Charles performs at the Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild on Saturday, bringing ‘Creole Soul,’ which incorporates and synthesizes the sounds of New Orleans and the Caribbean.
Mr. Charles began playing when he received a trumpet from his uncle at age 10.
The first jazz album that caught his attention was pianist Monty Alexander’s 1996 ‘Yard Movement,’ which incorporated a lot of reggae from Mr. Alexander’s native Jamaica. Later he embraced Chuck Mangione and Wynton Marsalis. ‘I was going to what I was being drawn to and began to work it into my sound,’ he says.