Clive Bradley - A Musical Wizardry

Clive Bradley A Musical Wizardry

by - Collins Jackman - When Steel Talks - Special

New York - Most people would argue–and there is much certitude to it–that Clive Bradley was a master steelband arranger, a top class musician, and an illuminating teacher. But while he was all of these, he was a person of much complexity and this aspect of Clive Bradley’s personality was brilliantly articulated in his music. What made his musical sensibilities interesting and complex was his ability to take very simple melodies or motifs and superimpose on them a symphonic opus that would always leave many standing in awe. Bradley was the kind of artist who could see the beauty in something that would generally be considered by others to be, low-brow, tawdry and insignificant. He was, in many ways, a humanist, resurrecting from the olden days, musical riffs, motifs and presenting them to his contemporary audiences with a modern twist that made these antiquated concepts and styles simple, relevant, appealing and hip. His music and his approach to it was the epitome of the idea that “there’s complexity in simplicity”.

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