Word: bande
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...band is noted for its ability to take classical and classic jazz pieces and add their own panazz stamp to them. In the song "Carmen Jones," they took a melody from Bizet's famous opera and gave it a little jazz flavor before really mixing it with pan rhythms and letting the tenor players tear it up. Tenor player Dane Gulston made his presence known from the start of the show and, at center stage for the remainder, he kept the intensity flowing and the tone of the show light as he alternatingly teased and supported the other band members...
...Boston area and were back before Thanksgiving with more steel drum action. Opening the concert was Ken "Professor" Philmore, who has performed with the likes of Ella Fitzgerald, Tito Puente and Cassandra Wilson in the past. Philmore's pan solos got the crowd in the mood, but his band struggled to keep up with him. Philmore is a pan master and has been playing steel drums since he was four years old, beginning his professional career at fifteen with the Hatters Steel Orchestra...
After the professor solemnly left the stage in his dark suit, the Panazz (pan and jazz squished together) Players took over the hall. They are currently the leading steel band ensemble in Trinidad and Tobago, the birthplace of pan music. In loose white pants and fluorescent tops, they were determined to bring a little of Trinidad and Tobago into the austere building. The fourteen member band includes a fifteen-year-old boy playing the six bass, and one woman who plays the double seconds. All the members share an amazing ability to work with most...
...which was added to their repertoire after performing their annual gig at Walt Disney World's Epcot Center, where they do 60 shows in two weeks. During the song, percussionist Cliff Coombs made a mockery of conducting as he danced and skipped around the stage, succeeding in firing up band and audience members alike...
...after the band Sweet Honey in the Rock had livened things up in Symphony Hall, Panazz took over the building and filled it up with their own brand of celebration. The crowd was up and dancing in the aisles for parts of the second half of the show, and for all of the encore. Rarely does Symphony Hall catch that kind of inspiration. Hopefully, BankBoston will have the Panazz Players back next year and make this an annual tradition. Otherwise, Epcot center will be the only place in the U.S. to enjoy Panazz...