Samy Thiébault is back in September with Caribbean Stories, exploration of Latin music and source of a thousand fruitful encounters
Samy Thiébault takes jazz to the Caribbean with his new album Caribbean Stories of which we can already discover a first chapter: Calypsotopia
Two years after Rebirth, which was already traveling to Africa and Asia, virtuoso Samy Thiébault decided to discover Caribbean music. He returns with a seventh album that adorns jazz with new inspirations. Accompanied on percussion and drums by Cuban Inor Sotolongo and Arnaud Dolmen, originally from Guadeloupe, bassist Felipe Cabrera and finally two guitarists, rich in influences ranging from Kingston to Puerto Rico, Hugo Lippi and Martinican Ralph Lavital, Samy Thiébault returns with an album that tells the story of an uprooted people. Jazz, calypso, merengue, waltz, bolero, chachacha and a hundred other genres are intertwined throughout the album Caribbean Stories, adventure in the Caribbean that we begin with the video of Calypsotopia.
Here is the video of Calypsotopia by Samy Thiébault:
Obviously the saxophonist follows his lucky star who continues to illuminate his musical path. We can't wait to follow in Samy Thiébault's footsteps in the new bright territories he explores with » Caribbean Stories. Born in Côte d'Ivoire to a French father and a Moroccan mother, Samy has long revolved around the mestizo idea of the Caribbean, until the musical reality of the Creole world hit him in Venezuela, made him bounce back in Puerto Rico, dragged him to Trinidad, put in his ear all the biguine of the French West Indies and all the drumming roots of Bob Marley…