Review (21)
Review: Talented panist delivers unique dedication to women in her life with ‘Girl in the Yard’
Toledo Blade
Toronto, Canada - ....On Girl in the Yard, though, panist Joy Lapps goes well beyond tropical fun and gives the listener some serious jazzy-samba arrangements of songs dedicated to women who’ve had a positive influence on her life, suc
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SOCA LOVE SONGS (KENNY J)
SOCA LOVE SONGS (KENNY J), SOCA MUSIC, CALYPSO MUSIC, PARANG MUSIC, CHUTNEY MUSIC, TRINIDAD & TOBAGO, BARBADOS, CROP OVER , CARNIVAL, KADOMENT, POP , bwe music, DJ Glen,
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Andy Barrus shows how steel pans can indeed make an ideal jazz instrument. - Charged Particles – ‘Live at the Baked Potato’; Mike Bogle – ‘Let There Be Light’ (2021)
Is it jazz, or just fusion? As though labels really matter. Recent albums by Dr. Mike Bogle and Charged Particles show the question is trivial at best, and ultimately irrelevant.
These two outings offer contrasting styles with some key commonalities
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Kintups Steel Orchestra “Over the Rainbow” (1959)
“Over the Rainbow”
Kintups Steel Orchestra
Cook CC 5957, 1959
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Opus Pocus -- Jaco Pastorius
Opus Pocus by Jaco Pastorius, from the album “JACO PASTORIUS” released in 1976 by Epic/Legacy…
MUSICIANS / PERSONNEL:
Jaco Pastorius – Bass |
Lenny White – Drums |
Herbie Hancock – Electric Piano |
Don Alias – Percussion |
Wayne Shorter – Soprano S
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Tiffany Haddish Gets The ‘Panman Treatment’ Actress-comedian asked to host Grammys pre-show with no pay
Tiffany Haddish (image: usmagazine.com)
USA - There are thousands of pan people, musicians, who can attest to the multiple times when they have been asked to perform for “free.” Either as a solo performer, or even more astounding, an entire band.
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The Day Bradley Made New York Screem -- Pantonic Steel Orchestra - “Stranger” - Clive Bradley - Arranger
Pantonic Steel Orchestra - “Stranger” - Clive Bradley - Arranger
(‘Panorama’ version - Video)
Global - And as the great one [Bradley] descended down to almost one knee, there was a vacuum-sucking hush. Then as he rose in the same motion, there was
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Pamberi Steel Orchestra’s ‘Chow Chow!’ Christmas Concert Live on TTT on Wed 16th Dec…Tune In Everybody!
Pamberi Steel Orchestra’s ‘Chow Chow!’ Christmas Concert
Live on TTT on Wed 16th Dec…Tune In Everybody!
Two Pamberi Christmas concerts separated by a 40-year journey of discovery. The first was really a ‘first’ in more than one sense. Back then
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PAT BISHOP remembers the late great Clive Bradley
Global - “In the midst of all the merrymaking that carnival is supposed to be; that handling of the minor key makes you remember those two masks... One mask is smiling and one mask is weeping. His minor always had this terrible, gut-wrenching qualit
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Machel does the Road March hattrick
Machel Montano has done it again.
The soca superstar has won the Road March title for the third time.
Montano's "Waiting on the Stage" won the Road March by a landlside with 328 plays.
Kes the Band's "People" came second with 29 plays.
Montano
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Remembering all the Pan, Mas and Calypso men and women who left us in 2014...
Remembering Them All - Players, Fans, Supporters & Family
- roycrosse - Panist, composer, artist - passes Trinidad All Stars - 2/20/2014
- Edwin Pouchet - Champion arranger of Silver Stars passes - 3/22/2014
- Ashley “Dosh” George - Panist Hell's Gate -
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Notting Hill Carnival — the untold story by Ishmahil Blagrove Jr
London Evening Standard -- Ishmahil Blagrove Jr
There are many conflicting tales of how Notting Hill’s street festival began. But as this extract from a new book by Ishmahil Blagrove Jr reveals, the greatest debt is owed to one remarkable woman
Ch
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"Big People Party" by Farmer Nappy a Rip Off of "Big People Party" by Teddyson John???
With so many steel orchestras performing "Big People Party" for the Summer and many of them considering it for their 2014 Panorama Tune of Choice, it is time to consider whose song is it?
Check out the 2012 version by Teddyson John of St. Lucia - acc
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2013 National Steelband Panorama Champion Performances - Worldwide
Winning performances from steel orchestras for their national panorama championships.
Performances include - Trinidad, New York, Antigua, Grenada, St. Lucia, Toronto and the UK.
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A Badjohn in Harlem: An Afternoon with Earl Lovelace
Read more…Earl Lovelace, I’m happy to report, is very much still with us, and he’s writing with as much verve and rhapsodic wonder as ever. Is Just a Movie is the story of two friends, Kangkala, an out-of-fashion calypsonian, and Sonnyboy, a badjohn turned rad
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Important landmarks of the Caribbean
-- what is today's "Brian Lara promenade" - facing East along what is now Independence Square, Trinidad. The Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception is in the background of the trees, lower third of image.
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A BOOK TO LOVE UP - NESTOR SULLIVAN Reviews “The Illustrated Story Of Pan”
A BOOK TO LOVE UP
NESTOR SULLIVAN Reviews “The Illustrated Story Of Pan”
I thank and congratulate Dr Kim Johnson. In the treasury of books on the steelband, The Illustrated Story of Pan is among the most valuable of gems.
It cuts a new path by tell
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Revisiting - New Book Illustrates Image of Pan with Telling Stories of The Steel Band
Global- The first few images in “The Illustrated Story of Pan” (288 pages) that jumped up and grabbed my eyeballs seemed eerily familiar. It wasn’t the six or seven young men scratching out the early rhythm of the steel band on paint pans, biscuit dr
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