Etienne Charles: Folklore LIVE Vol. 2 New York Performances

At Jazz at Lincoln Center, trumpeter and composer Etienne Charles presents *Folklore LIVE Vol. 2* as a concert that treats Caribbean memory as a living archive. The music moves between composed passages and open improvisation, tracing how oral history, ritual, and migration shape contemporary jazz in New York. It lands in a venue closely tied to the city’s jazz canon, placing diaspora narratives in direct conversation with that tradition. A quiet critical point emerges: the set argues that “folklore” is not nostalgia, but an active method of composition.