Imaginary Homeland at Trumpets Jazz Club & Restaurant

Jumbie Records is thrilled to announce the Oct 20 CD release concert of “Carry On,” the 2nd album by jazz/world music quartet Imaginary Homeland (led by Montclair saxophonist / composer David Rogers).

This acoustic jazz quartet takes a global view, with talking drums, African rhythms, and fiddle music of the Sahara. Led by the "visionary jazz and world-music saxophonist" David Rogers (Hartford Courant), the band’s sound has been called “a fusion masterpiece” (AllAboutJazz).


Jazz composer David Rogers left his Missouri roots and his music conservatory training in the States to spend two years living in the home of master drummers in rural Ghana. Living in a thatch hut through dust storms and rain seasons, he studied the native drum language and history of the talking drum. When he returned, he formed Imaginary Homeland with three other American musicians whose combined experience stretches from Ghana and Uganda to the hills of West Virginia and downtown New York....

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Jumbie Records is thrilled to announce the Oct 20 CD release concert of “Carry On,” the 2nd album by jazz/world music quartet Imaginary Homeland (led by Montclair saxophonist / composer David Rogers).

This acoustic jazz quartet takes a global view, with talking drums, African rhythms, and fiddle music of the Sahara. Led by the "visionary jazz and world-music saxophonist" David Rogers (Hartford Courant), the band’s sound has been called “a fusion masterpiece” (AllAboutJazz).


Jazz composer David Rogers left his Missouri roots and his music conservatory training in the States to spend two years living in the home of master drummers in rural Ghana. Living in a thatch hut through dust storms and rain seasons, he studied the native drum language and history of the talking drum. When he returned, he formed Imaginary Homeland with three other American musicians whose combined experience stretches from Ghana and Uganda to the hills of West Virginia and downtown New York.

In their new CD, “Carry On”, Imaginary Homeland finds vivid connections between these and nearer American musical roots. The results will delight music lovers looking for a fresh sound rooted in the traditions of both Africa and the Americas.

Trumpets Jazz Club & Restaurant
6 Depot Square
Montclair, New Jersey 07042
973-744-2600

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