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Happy Hour Jazz at the Institute Library

February 28, 2020 By Craig OConnell

Jazz Haven and the Institute Library present Happy Hour Jazz at the Institute Library.
February 28, 2020, 5:30 to 7:00 pm we will listen to a couple of early LPs of Andy Narell, who put steel pans on the music scene back in the seventies, and took them truly internationally  several years later.
This event is free and open to the public.   BYOB.

Narell took up the steelpan at a young age in Queens, New York. His father, who was a social worker, had started a program of steelpan playing for at-risk youth at the Jewish philanthropic Education Alliance in Lower East Side Manhattan using two sets of pans made by Rupert Sterling, a native of Antigua. Beginning in 1962, Andy, his brother Jeff, and three others boys played on a third set of Sterling-made pans in the basement of the Narell house in the Whitestone neighborhood of Queens, calling themselves the Steel Bandits. The band was a novelty steelpan act that played concerts and appeared on television shows, including I’ve Got a Secret in 1963.

The band played Carnegie Hall and at the National Music Festival of Trinidad. Murray Narell invited Ellie Mannette in 1964 to expand steelpan activities in New York City and convinced him to come in 1967. Mannette taught the Narell boys more technique, and they played on improved pans tuned by Mannette.

Narell studied music at the University of California, Berkeley and played piano with the University of California Jazz Ensembles under the direction of David W. Tucker. He graduated in 1973.

He started the record label Hip Pocket and released his first solo album, Hidden Treasures, in 1979. With an interest in Caribbean music, Latin jazz, and rhythm and blues, he joined the Caribbean Jazz Project in 1995 with Dave Samuels and Paquito D’Rivera.

He has performed with Montreux, Sakésho, Calypsociation, and Béla Fleck and the Flecktones. He composed and arranged music for Trinidad‘s national steelband competition, Panorama.  Narell performed in South Africa in 1999 in front of a crowd of 80,000 people.

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Happy Hour Jazz at the Institute Library

February 14, 2020 By Craig OConnell

Jazz Haven and the Institute Library present Happy Hour Jazz at the Institute Library.
February 14, 2020, 5:30 to 7:00 pm or so.  Since this is also Valentines Day, we will listen to some from the Institute’s extensive collection of Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan, Ella FitzGerald and Peggy Lee.  And, since 2020 is the hundredth anniversary of both the recorded history of jazz  (well, thereabouts, which is good enough for…..), we must include some of Anita O’Day who was born in 1920.
February 28, 2020, 5:30 to 7:00 pm we will listen to a couple of early LPs of Andy Narell, who put steel pans on the music scene back in the seventies, and took them truly internationally  several years later.

Tagged With: Happy Hour Jazz, Institute Library, Jazz Haven

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