London All Stars Steel Orchestra "Pan Here To Stay"
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Very cool sounding pans. Sweet music too. Nice work.
"Tooooooooo Sweeet well done"
Very nice
Pan Players:
Frank Rollock, Snr. and Philip Rollock - lead tenor
Duchess Rollock - bass/grundig
Countess Rollock - cellos
King Rollock - triple tenor
Princess Rollock - double tenor/double guitar
Frank Rollock - double second
Percussion: Nathan Rollock, Karenina Rollock, Earmon Thorpe, Frank Rollock Snr., Princess Rollock Frank Rollock and Philip Rollock.
I wished this steel band had more than the three CD's currently available.
Jerome, Lennox and Glen, the following is copied from the liner notes for this CD:
Frank Rollock, director and conductor of the "London All Stars', was born in Trinidad where he first learned the piano. Later, he studied pan playing with Carl Foster and graduated as a virtuoso tenor pan player. He played in many steelbands and formed his own, The Modernaires, at the age of 17. He learnt the art of pan making, tuning and blending with Carl Greenige and brought his expert skills to the UK in 1959. Frank Rollock formed the London All Stars Steelband in 1974.
There is MUCH more, so in summary:
Band includes 3 generations of the Frank Rollock's family (7 kids and grand children).
Won England's Panorama Championship 3 times and also the first and second British National Steelband Festival Championship.
Represented Britain at the 1990 World Steelband Festival in Trinida & Tobago.
Here is a link a 1997 BBC appearance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4am2ArvjxwM&feature=related
Hope this helps!!
Simply beautiful pan music. True Kitch. I would also like to know who tuned and blended those pans.
Great tunes and nice music !
Nice music
........All nine tracks on this recording with titles related to PAN.
It would be a pleasure to know whom is the Tuner of these Steelpans.
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