An evening of Caribbean jazz fu­sion mu­sic is be­ing planned for June 19, when the Trini­Jazz Project presents its first con­cert and CD re­lease at the Lit­tle Carib The­atre in Wood­brook, start­ing at 8 pm.

Pro­duced by Michael Low Chew Tung–leader of long-stand­ing fu­sion band �lan parl�–the Project brings to­geth­er some of T&T's most sought-af­ter mu­si­cians.

A re­lease from the or­gan­is­ers said the in­volve­ment of artistes such as Vaugh­nette Big­ford (vo­cals), Dean Williams (gui­tar), An­tho­ny "Tony Paul" Woodroffe Jr (sax­o­phone/flute), Rod­ney Alexan­der (bass) and Mod­upe Onilu (per­cus­sion) in­di­cates that Tri­ni jazz mu­sic is once again poised to take off in­to even greater heights.

Since pro­duc­ing his first al­bum project in 2001, Low Chew Tung, aka Ming, has con­tin­ued to delve in­to the en­deav­our quite con­sis­tent­ly. This is not sur­pris­ing, giv­en that the first al­bum, Kin­dred Spir­its, went on to cop two wins at the 2002 New York Sun­shine Mu­sic Awards.

As some­one who is known to sup­port the pos­si­bil­i­ties of lo­cal mu­sic and the po­ten­tial of the grow­ing in­dus­try, Low Chew Tung seized the op­por­tu­ni­ty ear­li­er this year to record five of his mu­si­cian col­leagues.

Asked how the idea for the Trini­Jazz Project came about, the pop­u­lar key­boardist said: "I found my­self per­form­ing very of­ten with my col­leagues, both at home and abroad and dis­cov­ered that a few of them didn't have any of their self-com­posed ma­te­r­i­al record­ed and avail­able for oth­ers to ex­pe­ri­ence, en­joy...and to pur­chase", he said.

"We agreed then to give it a try, and come Thurs­day we'll be launch­ing the CD com­pris­ing most­ly orig­i­nal com­po­si­tions and a cou­ple re-in­ter­pre­ta­tions of lo­cal clas­sics."

For lo­cal Caribbean jazz mu­sic lovers the list of mu­si­cians on the Trini­Jazz Project reads like a ver­i­ta­ble who's who on the cir­cuit, re­quir­ing lit­tle in­tro­duc­tion.

Each one of the five stands out as hav­ing dis­tin­guished them­selves per­form­ing at fes­ti­vals such as Jazz Artists on the Greens, To­ba­go Jazz Ex­pe­ri­ence and the Steel­pan and Jazz Fes­ti­val to name a few.

Their com­bined tal­ents on the record­ing, bol­stered by the �lan parl� rhythm sec­tion (with Mikhail Sal­cedo on steel pan), speak vol­umes for an an­tic­i­pat­ed soul-stir­ring live con­cert at the Lit­tle Carib The­atre, the or­gan­is­ers said.

The Trini­Jazz Project con­cert and CD launch takes place at the Lit­tle Carib The­atre on June 19. Show­time is 8 pm and com­pli­men­ta­ry cock­tails will be served from 7.15 pm. Tick­ets are $100 and avail­able at the Lit­tle Carib Box Of­fice. For more in­for­ma­tion, call: 746-3956 or e-mail: par­lemusik@gmail.com.

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