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Nothing But Bass If you're a bass player send us a picture of you and your instrument and be part of our year-end tribute to Bass Pan musicians globally... click to see sample [bass] |
 An Exclusive Interview with Martin Douglas, alumnus of the famed North Stars and Starlift Steel Orchestras and currently leader of New York's Crossfire Steel Orchestra... |
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Friday
October 29, 2004 Trinidad Guardian The Len “Boogsie” Sharpe show came to town on Monday and southerners are still talking about his awesome performance at Petrotrin Sports Club. The event, staged by the Queen’s Royal College Foundation, marked the first night of Trinidad performances in the 10-night T&T Steelpan and Jazz Festival - Pan Royale 2004.. |
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*PAN SITE OF THE WEEK* 10-24-04 |
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A Trinbago connection in jazz
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Thursday October 21, 2004
Born in Chicago, but now a New York resident, acclaimed jazz singer Leonora Zenzalai-Helm will share the spotlight at this month’s T&T Steelpan & Jazz Festival (Pan Royale 2004) with locals Orville Wright and Ron Reid. By Peter Ray Blood Five of the seven foreign headline acts in this month’s T&T Steelpan & Jazz Festival (Pan Royale 2004) have local connections giving the event a real melting pot feel. They include Talib Kibwe, whose mother is from Woodbrook and is a close relative of bassist/pannist Douglas Redon; Caribbean Arts Jazz Ensemble, led by David Boothman, and with Denzil Botus of Tobago; David “Happy” Williams, who is coming as the bassist with Cannonball; singer Leonora Zenzalai-Helm, whose rhythm section includes the illustrious Orville Wright and Ron Reid; and, Robert Greenidge who, for years, has been based in California, and has played extensively with the celebrated Jimmy Buffet and Ralph MacDonald. {more} |
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Saturday October 16, 2004
When Steel Talks
Billy Cobham And Culturemix at the Jazz Iridium in New York
Why Billy Cobham's
Culturemix has been part of the New York Iridium Jazz Club's
tenth-anniversary celebration is clear.
Like I
ridium, Cobham continues to blaze an awesome musical trail that
ranges from jazz to funk to R&B to rock and anything else that you can
move to. With two previous appearances at the club, it was like
another "coming home" session to claim his crown once again. The diversity
of the Culturemix combination is analogous to Iridium's own
changing and staying in step with the times.
[more]
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Saturday October 16, 2004
When Steel Talks
Billy Cobham And Culturemix Performing in New York In Pictures
Jazz fusion great
Billy Cobham is currently performing with his group Culturemix at New
York's jazz club the Iridium. When Steel Talks
music concerts' critics give the show two thumbs up! Also featured
in his group Culturemix is panist Junior Gill. The show
continues through Sunday October 17th. A must see for everyone, and
certainly for PanJazz enthusiasts!
When Steel Talks Pantographer, CP, caught Billy Cobham's Culturemix at the Jazz Iridium in New York City with Randy Becker and
Airto Moriera... Click on link to see and enjoy photo essay...
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Monday October 11, 2004
PanTrinbago set restrictive song list for
music Panorama 2005.
[more]
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Saturday October 9, 2004When Steel Talks
Steelpan Music and Instruments
Celebrate Ancestors
New York - AFRICAN BURIAL GROUND - NEW YORK CITY
The Steelpan, an incredible invention by
the descendants of African slaves who were brought to the western he
misphere,
played a prominent role in the celebration services for the Ancestors at
the historical 17th-19th century African burial ground in New York, where
nearly 20,000 Africans from as early as the 17th century are buried....
...The Ancestors were treated to a first-class concert as their lives were celebrated with the spoken word, song, dance, music and rhythm. The audience was treated to a first-time ever combination of musical greats Huge Masekela paired with the world-renowned Boys and Girls Harlem Choir. The voices of the Ebony Ecumenical Ensemble echoed off the surrounding New York buildings with soul-stirring traditional black gospel music. Their spiritual energies connected not only with the audience, but also with the souls of the Ancestors.
[more]
Web Posted - Monday, October 6, 2004
Pan In New York 2004 CD
- Ready and Available
New York– October 6, 2004
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An
educational, historical, cultural and artistic masterpiece that
showcases one of the most vibrant live music performance
movements in the United States today...
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Six of this year’s top New York steelbands are featured in the Basement Recordings' annual recording of steelbands, on the Pan in New York 2004! CD. It features panyard recordings of the bands in the final days of their panorama preparations which in itself is a unique experience.
 Sioux City Journal |
Riverside Elementary's Lehmberg chosen Sioux City Teacher of Year Sioux City Journal, IA - ... today through Saturday. She is doing a presentation about her Riverside Multicultural Music Company of steel drum bands. She gave a ... |
Web Posted - Monday, October 6, 2004
http://www.steelpan.se/forum/
SPOTLIGHT
- Original PanMan -
New York - October 1, 2004
What if we could take you back to the beginnings of the pan movement, and have you relive the experience as if you were actually there? Hear about the iron fist of the legendary Rudolph Charles, and laugh about, yet listen in wonder to what people did for the love of the mighty Pan Instrument? Then, meet Ralph Davis!
When Steel Talks was privileged to add yet another historian to its archives in the chronology of the history of Pan. A living, walking and breathing institution of pan, Ralph Davis (RD), one of the original members of the Desperadoes Steel Orchestra from the Hills of Laventille in Trinidad (even before the mighty Rudolph Charles) shared his experiences as a pioneering teenager who loved pan. He takes us right up to his present day activities in New York where he is still blazing a trail to perfect the Pan art form.
[read more] http://www.panonthenet.com/spotlight/rdavis/index.htm
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Friday
October 29, 2004 Southern New Hampshire Mango Groove Steel Band to Perform at SNHUBy Michelle DunnThe Mango Groove Steel Band will perform at Southern
New Hampshire University’s Walker Auditorium in Robert Frost Hall on
Thursday, Nov. 11, from 11 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. The performance is part
of the “Morning with Music” series sponsored by the Marion C. Smyth
Trust and presented by SNHU’s Department of Arts and Humanities. |
| Steel Pan Music World Suffers Losses... When Steel Talks extends its condolences to the family and friends of the following pan people who have passed recently... Nicholas Joseph aka "Sarge" - Double Tenor Pan player with New York's Marsicans Steel Orchestra 2002-2004 and also pan player with New York's former Pan Rebels Steel Orchestra... Contact: Andrew Torregrossa & Sons Inc. @ Tel: 1-718-253-5900 For more information. Herbert Ash of New York's Despers USA and Trinidad's Desperadoes... Mr. Ash is one of the original Desperadoes members... Contact Tel: 1-718-346-5736 for more information. Leroy Thomas - noted pan tuner of Curepe's Moods Steel Orchestra in Trinidad & Tobago... |
Web Posted - Monaday October 25, 2004
When Steel Talks
| Steelpan News From Japan...
This summer the YOKOHAMA Steel PAN Festa 2004 was held in
Japan. Click on link to see a video performance of Panple
performing War 2004 in addition to
a complete summary of the event.
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Thursday October 21, 2004
Ray Holman
New York - When Steel Talks
continues it
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exclusive series of interviews with the legendary Ray Holman who visited
WST studios on a cool 2004 Autumn afternoon. There was much to hear
from this well-respected luminary in the pan world. From his beginnings in
his Ana Street, Woodbrook, Trinidad home, where he would hear the bands
passing by, he talks about how he joined his first band, Invaders at age
thirteen (13). Interestingly while his father and uncle were not exactly
pleased with his steelband membership, Holman says his mother was not too
concerned. Within Invaders he worked with
Ellie Mannette
and Birdie Mannette,
and
Emmanuelle "Jack" Riley
who Holman describes as
not only his icon, but that of many other players. As he put it,
"everybody wanted to play like Jack."
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Web Posted - Saturday, October 2, 2004 SYMPOSIUM ON PAN WOMEN Brooklyn, NY – Something Positive Inc. is dedicating its 2004 Youth Steelpan Festival to the memory of founder and cultural icon Cheryl Byron. “Among the many art forms Cheryl advocated among our youth, she was most passionate about the steelpan”, stated Michael Manswell, the new executive director of the organization. “This festival keeps her spirit alive”, he added. The two-day festival kicks off at Medgar Evers College Bedford Avenue Auditorium on Friday, November 5, from 6 to 9 pm with a steelpan symposium themed, “Women’s Contribution to Pan”. The distinguished panel of music experts invited includes Dr. Dawn Batson currently at Indiana University, music teachers Lindy-Anne Bodden-Ritch and Esther K. Batson, arranger and ethnomusicologist Pat Bishop, Merle Albino Decoteau from the Creative Arts Centre at the University of the West Indies, and Nyasha Rhoden, pannist and music teacher at Philippa Schuyler Middle School in Brooklyn. On Saturday, November 6, from 12 noon to 5 pm, the performance segment of the festival moves to Middle School 2, 655 Parkside Avenue in Brooklyn, between Nostrand and Rogers Avenues. Parents are urged to have their children who play the instrument take part. All participants and their music teachers are invited to a one-hour pre-festival orientation at Middle School 2 on Tuesday, October 12 beginning at 6:30 pm sharp.
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Saturday October 20, 2004
Pan Trinbago
Panorama Judges Search Is On
Pan Trinbago invites
applications from qualified persons to serve as Adjudicators for Panorama
2005.
Applications can be sent to Pan Trinbago Headquarters, Victoria Park
Suites 14-17 Park Street, Port of Spain, Trinidad.
All applications must be accompanied by an up to date resume` and
unsuitable applicants will not be acknowledge.
Deadline for Applications is Friday November 12, 2004.
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Saturday October 15, 2004
When Steel Talks
When Steel Talks reviews -- "COLOURS"
Billy Cobham
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Colours:
Renowned jazz drummer Billy Cobham
started his illustrious career playing with legendary
acts like
Miles Davis, Dreams, and the Mahavishnu Orchestra. He has worked
with a wide variety of artists, from Sonny Rollins to James Brown.
After leaving the Mahavishnu Orchestra in 1973, Cobham released the
solo record SPECTRUM, which went on to sell more than
one million
copies and bowled critics over.
Billy Cobham is one of the greatest drummers on the planet and needs no
introduction or validation.
He is one of the
true masters and pioneers of jazz fusion. His group
Culturemix
continues that legacy
without compromise or disappointment.
The result is an artistic masterpiece of authentic JAZZ Fusion -- with a realistic taste of the
Afro-Caribbean experience always right around the corner when
desired.
[more]
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Posted - Wednesday 15th
October 2004 Meeting Resolution At the outset, Pan Trinbago seeks to correct a bit of misinformation, which is being perpetuated by the media and in particular the Newsday. The editorial of the Newsday of Tuesday October 5, 2004, speaks of ‘Pan Trinbago’s threatened boycott of Carnival 2005’. This is an unfortunate statement, since there is as yet no such threat. |
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Posted - Wednesday 14th
October 2004
The BG News
Steelband performs tonight
By Carrie Whitaker
Editor-in-Chief
October 14, 2004
The sound can be high or low, sharp or echoing -- all depending on the way the steel is bent.
But, University student Gerard Boucaud hopes the steel drum sound will effect more than the ears. He hopes to reach the hearts and minds of the Bowling Green community.
Tonight the BGSU Caribbean Association welcomes The Florida Memorial College Steelband, who will perform at 8 p.m. in Kobacker Hall of the Moore Music Arts Center.
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Monday
October 12, 2004
When Steel Talks
Nothing But Drums
There are few positions if any in the music world that are as challenging, rewarding, difficult and demanding as that of a steelband drummer. Indeed, the ultimate is the title "panorama drummer" of a world-class steel band with 100-plus players. The position requires not only a monstrous skill set and physical stamina, but a radical departure in thinking, and understanding of the role of a drummer operating at this very high musical level.
Indeed, the fortune of some 100-plus other musicians [and in some cases a village or country] is directly interfaced with the ability and composure of the drummer. One mistake on his part can result in a catastrophic derailing of the locomotive and subsequent tragic runaway crash-landing of an otherwise classic performance that will become the substance of folk lore and history (documented in both song and the books).
For
this final quarter of the year we focus on the hardest working man in the
band; the steelband drummer. Just ask
Max Roach or Ralph McDonald.
This mystical and revered position has attracted the attention of some of
the greatest drummers and percussionists on the planet. While many
young people dreamt of being like Michael Jordan, simultaneously countless
others worldwide dreamt with equal passion, of one day holding the position
of steelband drummer. We salute the great steelband drummers past and
present.
Click on link following link to see tribute. [more] Nothing But Drums
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Saturday
October 9, 2004
When Steel Talks
African Burial Ground Celebration in video
and pictures...
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New York -
Boys and Girls
Harlem Choir, Huge
Masekela, Ebony Ecumenical Ensemble, Cecily Tyson, Bobbi Humphrey,
Musart Steel, Marie Brooks Pan Caribbean Children's Dance Company , Ruby
Dee and Ossie Davis and more...
[more]
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Monday,
October 6, 2004
When Steel Talks
Pan Reality Notes $$$...
Recently a Pan Fan heard the music of band in our Spotlight Section... He was so moved by the bands performance and versatility he sent them a check for few hundreds dollars US. Now that's what we call pan love and support!!!
Pan4Life
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Monday,
October 6, 2004
Trinidad Newsday
| NEED TO MARKET PAN
Pan Trinbago’s threatened boycott of Carnival 2005, if carried out, may be counter-productive, as was the mid 1970s pan boycott of the Parade of Bands at the Queen’s Park Savannah. An unexpected spin-off of that boycott was that most of the Carnival bandleaders turned, increasingly, to brass bands and disc jockeys to provide music for their mas players. In addition, several business houses withdrew their sponsorship of steelbands, and it was only the intervention of late Prime Minister, Dr Eric Williams, which caused them to reconsider. What Pan Trinbago needs to do, instead of issuing boycott threats, is seek to develop strategies which would result, in the first instance, in the core players of the leading steelbands contracted for engagements the year round, in much the same way that many musicians in brass bands are in regular demand. [more] |
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by When Steel Talks
Pan On The Net Radio
Features
New York Panorama Yard Recordings
A brand new special show. Now you can hear for yourself 'Pan In New York 2004". Listen to the début of the NY Pan Yard recordings by Basement Recordings, the steelpan audio and video capturing gurus. http://www.panonthenet.com
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