''The Passage'' is an album by
steelpan
The steelpan (also known as a pan, steel drum, and sometimes, collectively with other musicians, as a steelband or steel orchestra) is a musical instrument originating in Trinidad and Tobago. Steelpan musicians are called pannists.
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Andy Narell
Andy Narell (born March 18, 1954) is an American jazz steel pannist, composer and producer.
Biography
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 ...
that was released in 2004 and recorded with the group Calypsociation.
Track listing
All tracks are composed by Andy Narell.
#"The Passage" – 10:13
#"Song for Mia" - 8:05
#"The Long Way Back" - 5:57
#"Sea of Stories" - 9:17
#"Mabouya" - 6:37
#"Dee Mwa Wee" - 7:17
#"Coffee Street" - 11:10
Personnel
*Andy Narell - tenor, double second, and quaduet steel pans
Bandleaders
*Mathieu Borgne - drums, percussion
*Laurent Lalsingué - tenor, double second
Guest soloists
*
Michael Brecker
Michael Leonard Brecker (March 29, 1949 – January 13, 2007) was an American jazz saxophonist and composer. He was awarded 15 Grammy Awards as both performer and composer. He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Berklee College of M ...
– tenor sax ("Song for Mia")
*
Paquito D'Rivera – alto sax ("Mabouya")
*
Hugh Masekela
Hugh Ramapolo Masekela (4 April 1939 – 23 January 2018) was a South African trumpeter, flugelhornist, cornetist, singer and composer who was described as "the father of South African jazz". Masekela was known for his jazz compositions and for ...
– flugelhorn ("Dee Mwa Wee")
Other instrumentalists
* tenor: Olivier Wiren, Clement Bazin, Stéphanie N'Doye-Chevret, Sonia Descamps
* double tenor: Gwendel Wiren
* double second: Laurence Guerrini, Traci-Leigh Scarlett, Melodie Hammel, Etienne Huguenot, Delphine Denis, Marie Pelletier, Alice Courbrant
* triple guitar: Julie Goldstein, Magda Belaïd
* double guitar: Coline Hammel, Thomas Calavera
* 4 cello: Patrick Thine, Frédéric Deshuis, Agathe Delaporte, Donald Gellez
* tenor bass: Olivier Thomas, Jocelyne Baillon
* bass: José Babeu, Philippe Goldstein, Isabel Encinias, Nathalie Clérault, Smaïl-Smao Mekki, Bruno François
* percussion: Laurent Coatalen, Pernell Saturnino, Philippe Malique
* tuner: Darren Dyke
References
Andy Narell albums
2004 albums
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