{"id":126622,"date":"2026-01-21T16:08:52","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T15:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamboreejazz.com\/evento\/peter-somuah-group\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:12:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T15:12:03","slug":"peter-somuah-group","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/jamboreejazz.com\/en\/event\/peter-somuah-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Somuah Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1387\" data-end=\"1498\"><strong data-start=\"1387\" data-end=\"1403\">Peter Somuah<\/strong> trumpet \u00b7 <strong data-start=\"1414\" data-end=\"1432\">Anton De Bruin<\/strong> keyboards \u00b7 <strong data-start=\"1445\" data-end=\"1467\">Marijn van der Ven<\/strong> bass \u00b7 <strong data-start=\"1475\" data-end=\"1490\">Jens Meijer<\/strong> drums<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1500\" data-end=\"1904\">In 2022, <strong>Peter Somuah<\/strong> won the prestigious <strong data-start=\"1542\" data-end=\"1563\">Edison Jazz Award<\/strong> with his debut album, <em data-start=\"1586\" data-end=\"1599\">Outer Space<\/em>. With his memorable ACT debut, <em data-start=\"1631\" data-end=\"1655\">Letter to the Universe<\/em> (2023), <strong>Somuah<\/strong> presented an ambitious biographical mosaic\u2014a cosmopolitan fusion of his many influences\u2014which led the respected German newspaper <em data-start=\"1800\" data-end=\"1821\">S\u00fcddeutsche Zeitung<\/em> to note that the album \u201cgave proof of the complexity of jazz as a world language.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1906\" data-end=\"2693\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">With his follow-up album, <em data-start=\"1932\" data-end=\"1942\">Highlife<\/em> (November 2024), <strong>Peter Somuah<\/strong> has returned to his roots and to his first musical love. He has been playing <em data-start=\"2050\" data-end=\"2060\">highlife<\/em>, the iconic music of his homeland\u2014widely rumored to be added to UNESCO\u2019s Intangible Cultural Heritage register in 2025\u2014since childhood. \u201c<em>Highlife has fundamentally influenced the way I play the trumpet, the way I listen to music, and the way I compose<\/em>\u201d says <strong>Somuah<\/strong>. This influence is also reflected in his distinctive trumpet sound: sometimes radiant, sometimes nuanced and brittle, inspired by the recordings he heard as a young man by highlife icons such as <strong>E.T. Mensah<\/strong> and <strong>The Ramblers<\/strong>. He now sees himself as a bridge between two clearly related worlds: with one foot in modern jazz and the other in a traditional highlife bar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Somuah trumpet \u00b7 Anton De Bruin keyboards \u00b7 Marijn van der Ven bass \u00b7 Jens Meijer drums In 2022, Peter Somuah won the prestigious Edison Jazz Award with his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":126623,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":"","_tec_slr_enabled":"","_tec_slr_layout":""},"tags":[228,62,219,51],"estado_evento":[],"tribe_events_cat":[52],"class_list":["post-126622","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-afrobeats","tag-funk","tag-groove","tag-jazz","tribe_events_cat-concert","cat_concert"],"acf":[],"ticketed":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamboreejazz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/126622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamboreejazz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamboreejazz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamboreejazz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jamboreejazz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/126622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126630,"href":"https:\/\/jamboreejazz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/126622\/revisions\/126630"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamboreejazz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamboreejazz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamboreejazz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126622"},{"taxonomy":"estado_evento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamboreejazz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/estado_evento?post=126622"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamboreejazz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=126622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}