Trinidad-born, Julliard-trained trumpet player and composer Etienne Charles brings the live version of his latest project, Carnival: The Sound of a People, Vol. I, to the Rialto Center for the Arts in concert with the Georgia State University Jazz Band. Based on a visit to the Trinidad village of Paramin and his impressions of Jab Molassie, the blue, fire-breathing characters whose identities the villagers assume during Carnival, Charles has created an elegantly complex, swinging, multi-vectored musical odyssey grounded in jazz, blues, funk, calypso, soca and other Caribbean styles.