Jazz drummer and V.I. native Dion Parson will be joined by musician and teacher Louis Taylor in a talk on the influence of Caribbean music on jazz at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Virgin Islands Cultural Heritage Institute.
Caribbean music has filtered into jazz practically from its beginnings and the music of Jelly Roll Morton, through the experiments of Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie in melding Caribbean rhythms with bebop, and more recently in the stylings of saxophonists Sonny Rollins and Oliver Lake.
Parson, along with tenor saxophonist Ron Blake (also from the V.I.), has been extending that tradition, particularly with his band 21st Century.
The public is invited to the free discussion Tuesday. The institute is located at 5-6 Kongens Gade, across the street from the "White House." For more information, call 774-9537.