TransAtlantic Journey by Dr. Jerome C. Crichton blends Afro Fusion Jazz with history in a groundbreaking musical odyssey.

The pianist leads his ensemble in two suites of his own and the final commissioned work of the great jazz composer Carla Bley ...

Other jazz performers were trying to experiment with music originating from around the world. Charlie Parker (saxophonist) and Machito recorded the Afro-Cuban Jazz Suite album in 1950, and pianist ...

Hailing from Tokyo, Japan, Ittetsu Nasuda is a distinguished jazz pianist based in New York City whose exploration of contemporary and Afro- Cuban jazz and his overall ... is accustomed to hearing on ...

But, for example, at church I could not wear my hair as I do today; to have an Afro hairstyle wasn’t cool." His brand of jazz is heavily influenced by Brazilian rhythms - but not the samba and ...