Ernie Odoom

{{Infobox musical artist

| name = Ernie Odoom

| image = Ernie_Odoom.jpg

| caption = Photo of Ernie in 2009

| instrument = Saxophone, Vocals

| genre = Jazz, jazz fusion, jazz funk, improvisation

| occupation = Bandleader, composer, saxophonist, vocalist

| website = [http://www.ppa-plus.com/ernie www.ppa-plus.com/ernie]

}}

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+.{{Cite web|url=http://www.ppa-plus.com/group.htm|title=PPA+ Group}}{{Cite web |url=http://www.rootmanmusic.com/musicians.html |title=Rootman:Grooves,Funk,Jazz ,Electronic,Nu Jazz Bangkok ,Thailand |access-date=2013-08-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131127112732/http://rootmanmusic.com/musicians.html |archive-date=2013-11-27 |url-status=dead }} 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.{{Cite web|url=http://www.lebocal.com/en|title = LEBOCAL collective}}

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.{{Cite web|url=http://www.ppa-plus.com/ernie/biography.htm|title = Ernie Odoom - Biography}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.infoconcert.com/artiste/emow-37886/biographie.html|title = Biographie E'MOW}} In 2008, Ernie began work with a new trio, The Glenn Ferris Wheel, with Glenn Ferris on trombone and Bruno Rousselet on double bass.{{Cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/ferris-wheel-mw0001385655|title = Ferris Wheel - Glenn Ferris, Ernie Odoom, Bruno Rousselet | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic|website = AllMusic}}

As a founder of Jaydo's Jazz Cafe in Geneva,{{Cite web|url=http://www.jaydos.ch/jaydos/|title = Jaydo's Jazz Café - News}}{{Cite web |url=http://www.jazz-clubs-worldwide.com/docs/swiss.htm |title=Jazz Clubs Switzerland |access-date=2009-05-25 |archive-date=2009-05-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090531135217/http://www.jazz-clubs-worldwide.com/docs/swiss.htm |url-status=dead }} 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).{{Cite web|url=http://www.amr-geneve.ch/performance?id=2596|title = | AMR}}{{Cite web |url=http://www.music.mahidol.ac.th/tjc/Artis.html |title=Thailand Jazz Conference 2009 |access-date=2009-05-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090322203832/http://www.music.mahidol.ac.th/tjc/Artis.html |archive-date=2009-03-22 |url-status=dead }}{{Cite web |url=http://www.rootmanmusic.com/about.html |title=Rootman:Grooves,Funk,Jazz ,Electronic,Nu Jazz Bangkok ,Thailand |access-date=2013-08-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131127113941/http://rootmanmusic.com/about.html |archive-date=2013-11-27 |url-status=dead }}{{Cite web|url=http://www.mrpickwick.ch/event/548/23-04-2011|title=Home - Mr Pickwick}}{{Cite web |url=http://ch.tilllate.com/de/event/10395463 |title=Tilllate.com Schweiz - Blakat Jam Session, Donnerstag 3.3.2011, Chat Noir, Carouge |access-date=2013-08-19 |archive-date=2013-08-19 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130819130507/http://ch.tilllate.com/de/event/10395463 |url-status=dead }}