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Friday, April 17, 2020 | 7:00 PM | The Sean Thomas Quartet

The Sean Thomas Quartet will present a STAY at HOME repertoire for all to enjoy.

The repertoire will touch on selections by Stevie Wonder, Sonny Rollins, Bob Marley, Duke Jordon & Miles Davis performed by a cast that's passionate about making music. The Quartet features Kayton Lane…

Click on the following links. In this time of Lent, it may be a good time to clean up your act, and end your disobeying of the "Commandments". I know I have. May you be governed accordingly, and judged according to your own works.

George D. Goddard. …

TO JEREMY DE BARRY: Mr. de Barry, this is a second notice, that you remove all content of the book,"Forty Years In The Steelbands, 1939-1979" by George "Sonny" Goddard, (ISBN 9781854650344). You continue to violate my mother's rights as the copyright owner. I verified with her that she never gave anyone, you included, permission to reproduce the book. This is what she wrote and is in the process of notarizing:

Tuesday January 21, 2020

DISCLAIMER…

PA N  _ _ _

Has come a long way

But do you know::

How we got where we are today ???

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The Boys 

Didn’t read music

So how did they teach it???

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Well, listen up -  Listen up

Ah go tell you today

CHORUS

Watch "meh" hand boy

Ah, say watch meh hand!! (ping ping ping pong ) 

Ah doing it slow --- For you to understand Boy

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Watch meh…

It was Carnival Monday

I wasn't Jumping up in de Band

I was playing Spectator

Hugging up "may" partner Worman

When this old girlfriend Spot me

And - Darling "before meh head could ah tun"

She "start" bathing in powder

And drag me in de band -

Singing (CHORUS)

C1

Doh tell me you can't remember

When all ah we used to run

Doh tell me you can't remember

Darling - Dem days was real - "real"…

V1,

Tell Me Again & Again

Please Help Me Understand,

The Evaluation

Of The Steel Pan

Those Stories Told

Of Days Of Old

Really Fascinate Me

So Ah To Ask "May" Granny

Who Sat Me Down & Explained Me

    -CHORUS-

(pick-up) Son, It Was        

IT Was Pan Better Pan-

Man Better Man -

Band Better Band

(Sub Chorus)

Lord Help You

If You Touch We Flag…

A podcast featuring conversations with Caribbean jazz and pan jazz musicians based in the islands and the diaspora. [LINK HERE]…

Tuition available as well...

What is the situation re The CAZIQ Music  to  which DESPERADOES had aligned themselves ?

The first Panorama in Brooklyn was held in 1972, and on August 31st, 2019 was the 45th in the 5 decades. The winning arrangers & bands:

1972<>TROPICANS with DENZIL "Belt" BOTUS

1973<>PAN MASTERS with DAVE LA BARRIE

1974 Panorama was rained out

1975<>BROOKLYNAIRES with LEON STERLING

1976<>EXIBITS with ANTHONY LYNCH

1977<>MOODS with LEN "Boogsie" SHARPE

1978<>SATISFIERS with TREVOR KING

1979 and…

.. I have an interview with Bobby Mohammed  june 2019..-45mins..on his story of Guiness Cavaliers..also mp4 recordings of Melody mas, 67, St Thomas gyal, Mas in Brookyn etc . In an effort to assist his finances at this age of his life i have to put a small price /donation to be sent to hiim..directly or other wise..I have his permission to do so.if you are so benevolently inspired please contact me at valram@hotmail.com.

Interested in four sticks technique, jazz harmony, scales, Barry Harris improvisation concepts for steelpans plus more. Send me an email to start your online session at seanjazzthomas@gmail.com

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JAZZ WORKSHOP SERIES 

Chapter 1-5 

Every Space & Note Counts

An Introduction to Jazz Pianist, Composer & Educator - Barry Harris

Hosted by Steel Pan Trust for ALL Intermediate/Advance Steel Pan Musicians

presented by: Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz Alumnus - Sean Thomas

areas covered:

• Barry Harris rules for major, minor & dominant 7th scales 

• Rhythm, and rhythmic aspects of playing, sight…

My 4th collection of original tunes for Steel Pan, entitled "The Panoramic View," is now available.  The book features 20 songs in lead sheet style (melodies and chords) for small combos to play.  For soloists and students, every tune comes with backing tracks featuring a "band" behind the player.  My other collections, “Sea Breeze,” “Chasing Summer,” and “Put It Behind You,” are also available through Tropical Shores Productions.  I'm very…

CARNIVAL IS A RITUAL

They came from all over just as they did last year and for so many years before to this meeting place, to indulge in this Ritual that is Carnival. Their behavior was trance-like, as though possessed they gathered at Ports of departure, each one determined that nothing could stop them from worshiping their God, King Carnival. Their transit to the venues of worship was tense with anticipation as they were moved by the memory of last year's Ritual. Their…

So have we in 2019 reached that dreaded 'glass ceiling' where bands that are outside that 'big 5' sacred circle are thrown under the bus? The message that this sends to every other band is that no matter how hard you try, no matter how  proficiently, well-arranged and executed, no matter how 'top drawer' a performance, the answer will always be a resounding 'No'. Unless judges don't get overly swayed by popularity and/or fan enthusiasm, unless they dare to use objectivity and make…