PAN POINTERS: A panman from Pemberi points his stick as he performed yesterday at the Panorama semis at the Queen's Park Savannah. PHOTO BY JEFF K. MAYERS
....Three minutes into the song Stewart gave praise to the Almighty looking skyward as he guided his troops who executed with clinical precision. A bit of the Bassman in tribute to Winston “Shadow” Bailey and a bit of the hymn, How Great Thou Art, were built into Elders' presentation.
However, getting the most applause in the category was Pamberi, playing in position eight, Gyal Owner (Blaxx). Chants of Showtime! Showtime! by the members before getting into a nice spirited performance. Arranger Andre White took a couple bars from Yuh Looking for Horn (Shadow) and mixed it in the song.
The great crowd response left the arranger totally overwhelmed so much so that he held his face to mask his emotion but then gave some pumped-up hi fives to some of the tenor pannists. It was the biggest applause any band got at that point....
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At least, some people listened to the MUSIC. Pamberi s/h/b in the first three or four.
Talent can't be denied for ever. Andre is already one of the top six arrangers in the world and he doesn't even know it.
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He's got to make his mark inT&T, He has an excellent oppty to do so.
Mercer Ramdoo: I eh talking to you NO MORE. Because like yuh doh read my postings.
How ANDRE go make he mark in TRINIDAD when yuh know that DEM TRINI JUDGES bias against EXPAT ARRANGERS.
If ah man could be a BIG MUSIC PROFESSOR in AMERICA but when he come down to arrange a song in TRINIDAD -- the judges tell him that HE DOH KNOW NOTHING ABOUT MUSIC and he CYAR arrange NO CALYPSO.
And while all dem other arrangers sitting down in TRINIDAD after PANORAMA and drinking rum and waiting for the NEXT PANORAMA -- that man traveling ALL OVER THE WORLD and performing to RAVE MUSICAL REVIEWS.
But he cannot arrange a TOP 5 CALYPSO IN TRINIDAD.
I done with you MERCER RAMDOO -- ah putting you in the same box with EARL RAMSEY ... and he at the BOTTOM OF MEH BARREL, EH!!!
Claude, in a land where, after hundreds of years they still talk of "fresh water Yankees", one can understand their inability to judge 'foreign' arrangers. Liam once said he's there not for competition, but to put down good music.
ive said it before, the judges judge arrangers, not arrangements.