Akinola Sennon

Akinola Sennon: Cousoumeh

by Nigel Campbell
September 26, 2016

Trinidadian steelpan player and musical director of local steelband Siparia Deltones, Akinola Sennon's Cousoumeh is a mix of effective songwriting and performance and a daring leap into a new way of hearing improvised music from the Caribbean. Ropeadope Records--an increasingly important record label in the U.S.--is home to steelpan jazz artists Leon Foster Thomas and Jonathan Scales Fourchestra--remarks openly that the record, “is an interpretation of jazz where the heritage of the island [Trinidad] and the full sense ...