Travels With My Trombone: A Caribbean Journey

From the siesta to fiesta, the lifeblood of the Caribbean is in the rhythms of the salsa, calypso and zouk. The author of this book left London for Trinidad seeking to tap some of this bravura by joining a salsa band - the heart of the islands - and this book tells of his experiences. Caught in the exhilaration of carnival in Port of Spain, jamming with a police band in Grenada, witness to the thunderous drumming in the invocation of the god Shango in Trinidad and learning an unfamiliar style of zouk for a one-night stand in Dominica, Shukman's quest to share the musical roots of the people of the islands uncovered a world of powerful eroticism, ritual and mysticism. And on the mainland, the then travel-hardened Shukman was hurled into another world of carnival in the Colombian salsa capital Cali, sang the vallenato in the plaza of the northern town of La Gloria and was awoken in Cartegena to the nightmare of being falsely arrested as a supsected drug trafficker.

Title - Travels With My Trombone: A Caribbean Journey

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Author - Henry Shukman

ISBN 13 - 9780002157407

Imprint - HarperCollins Publishers Ltd

Publisher - HarperCollins Publishers

Date Published - 18/06/1992

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No. of pages -

Binding Type - Hardback

Dimensions - 159 x 240 x 19mm

Weight - 644 g

Languages - English