Ernie Odoom

Ernie Odoom
Photo of Ernie in 2009
Background information
Genres	Jazz, jazz fusion, jazz funk, improvisation
Occupation(s)	Bandleader, composer, saxophonist, vocalist
Instrument(s)	Saxophone, Vocals

Website	www.ppa-plus.com/ernie

Musical artist

Ernie Odoom is a Swiss Vocalist, Saxophonist and Band Leader. He was a co-founder of PPA+ and Rootman which is Thai version of PPA+.^[1]^[2] Odoom released albums for the band LeBocal, as a vocalist and saxophonist, with his friends since 2002 and developing modern-improvising on his own style.^[3]

Odoom won the Prix du Festival at Crest Vocal Jazz competition in 2004 and went on to form the piano-voice duo E'MOW and the progressive pop quartet Liquid Groovement with pianist Michel Wintsch, who is a reference in improvised music in Switzerland.^[4]^[5] In 2008, Ernie began work with a new trio, The Glenn Ferris Wheel, with Glenn Ferris on trombone and Bruno Rousselet on double bass.^[6]

As a founder of Jaydo's Jazz Cafe in Geneva,^[7]^[8] he is playing jazz music in Geneva and usually appears on European/Asian jazz stages including AMR Jazz Festival (Swiss), Thailand Jazz Conference (Thailand), Saxophone Pub (Thailand), Eden Lounge (Vietnam), Pickwick Pub (Swiss) and Blakat Jam Session in Au Chat Noir (Swiss).^[9]^[10]^[11]^[12]^[13]

Discography

Ernie Odoom began recording his full album in 1991. A list of albums featuring Ernie Odoom :^[14]^[15]

With Les Tontons Flingueurs

Mama Told Me (1991)
Voleur de Feu (1995)

With Peeping Tom

Peeping Tom (1994)

With Sao

Entre Ciel et Terre (1999)

With LeBocal

Collectif etc (2002)
Oh No !... Just Another Frank Zappa Memorial Barbecue ! (2003)
Ego (2006)
Bist du froh ? (2012)

With Pavel Pesta Re-Bop Quintet

Pavel Pesta Re-Bop Quintet (2005)

With Glenn Ferris Wheel Trio

ENJA (2009)

With William Parker

Essence of Ellington (Centering, 2012)
Wood Flute Songs (AUM Fidelity, 2013)

Recordings on his live performances :

Just Kidding, Interrogation (1999)
PPA+, Live at the Chat Noir (2002)
Croon On (2003)
L’Ilorkestra (2004)
E’MOW (2006)

A list of CD albums that Ernie was invited to be a guest artist :

Icare-SaturnSplit-32db (1997) - with Peeping Tom
Lili Lazer (1998) - with Brico Jardin
Liquid Sand (1999) - with Peeping Tom
16 Nouvelles Aventures (1999) - with Brico Jardin
Neuf (2000) - with Sandro en Compagnie
Delivering (2004) - with Actaruss 1
Pavel Pesta Re-Bop Quintet (2005)
Right Next Door (2006) - with Quartier Lointain

Sources

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^ "Thailand Jazz Conference 2009". Archived from the original on 2009-03-22. Retrieved 2009-05-25.
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^ "Tilllate.com Schweiz - Blakat Jam Session, Donnerstag 3.3.2011, Chat Noir, Carouge". Archived from the original on 2013-08-19. Retrieved 2013-08-19.
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^ "LEBOCAL : discography". www.lebocal.com. Archived from the original on 2013-01-27.