Let's Bash!

Born in Montreal to Haitian parents, multi instrumentalist-composer-educator-producer Jowee (pronounced Joey ) Omicil brings a novel and distinctly Afro-Haitian perspective to his music. He s part of a growing cadre of Caribbean-descended artists bringing new flavours to the creative music spectrum. One who possesses a distinctive, soulful and spiritual sound on saxophones and flutes that extends to his clarinet and harmonica ventures. Jowee infuses his music with the freedom of jazz, the spirituality of gospel, and an aural universe of soul-shaking grooves. Music which speaks to body and mind, in which melodic storytelling is essential, his Creole roots blending with gospel, soul, hip hop culture and world folklore, while paying homage to his jazz forefathers from Charlie Parker to Ornette Coleman to Wayne Shorter. As for Let s Bash!, it is at once a battle cry and a declaration of love which conceals a fine profession of faith : I want jazz to be popular again.