On Tuesday, March 17 the West Indian Company Ltd. features Jazz on the Dock that will start at 5:30 pm until 9 in the evening.
The event is set to happen at WICO dock gazebo area where jazz artists such as Steve Turre Quartet, featuring Steve Turre on shells and trombone, will be the main act; while the entire Ivanna Eudora Kean High School (IEKHS) Music Department, directed by Dionne Donadelle, Jeanette Rhymer and Kai Callwood, will be heading the opening act.
“What makes jazz so intriguing is the uniqueness of every performance,” said WICO president and CEO Joseph B. Boschulte. “Add an instrument as indigenous and as unique as the conch shell, and you have the makings of a memorable performance.”
At 5:30 p.m., IEKHS’s music department will begin performing. That will be followed by Steve Turre, Benito Gonzalez (piano), Gerald Cannon (bass) and Dion Parson (drums) taking the stage at 6:30 p.m.
Turre is renowned to be one of the globe’s outstanding jazz innovators, trombonists and seashellists. He has unfailingly been voted as Best Trombone and Best Miscellaneous Instrumentalist in the readers’ and critics’ polls of JazzBeat, Downtime and Jazziz. This coming event would be his second appearance at WICO’s stage.
Since Rashaan Roland Kirk has introduced Turre to seashell as an instrument and after knowing that his relatives from Mexico also used the same instrument for music, he began incorporating seashells into his musical style.
Turre attended the Sacramento State University, and then joined the Escovedo Brothers salsa band since he has been exposed to mariachi, blues and jazz from an early age.
When Ray Charles hired him to go on tour he began working with various list of artists in equally exposed genres, including jazz, pop and Latin.
Addition to his achievements, he has been a part of the Saturday Night Live band since 1984.
Many other known jazz artists are awaited at the event. The best thing is that the music event at WICO is free for all!
Jazz on the Dock is sponsored by The West Indian Company Ltd, United Jazz International LLC, Mentoring through the Arts of Music, A9 Enterprises, the V.I. Department of Planning and Natural Resources, the University of the Virgin Islands, Avis, the Virgin Islands Council on the Arts and the U.S.V.I. Department of Tourism.
Jazz on the Dock Presents Steve Turre On Shells and Trombone
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