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| Live in South Africa [ ÉLŐ ] |
| Andy Narell |
| első megjelenés éve: 2001 |
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| (2001)
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2 x CD |
| 4.161 Ft
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| 1. CD tartalma: |
| 1. | Play One for Keith
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| 2. | Kalinda
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| 3. | Out of the Blue
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| 4. | Jenny's Room
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| 5. | Coffee Street
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| 6. | Hannibal's Revenge
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| 2. CD tartalma: |
| 1. | Sugar Street
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| 2. | Chakalaka
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| 3. | Little Secrets
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| 4. | Heads or Tails
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| 5. | Mpule
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| 6. | Oxamu
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Jazz
Andy Narell - Mixing, Producer, Steel Pan
Denny Lalouette - Bass
Louis Mhlanga - Guitar
Rob Watson - Drums
Steel pan virtuoso Andy Narell releases his first live recording, Live in South Africa (HUCD 3060). The two-disc enhanced CD recording hails from an extensive tour of Southern Africa, his second tour within the last eighteen months.
Narell, whose multicultural style embraces a range of Afro-Caribbean, Latin jazz and pop traditions, recently discovered a hidden audience in South Africa. His first performance in Johannesburg on September 4, 1999 was to a crowd estimated at between sixty and eighty thousand.
“It was a mass of people like I’d never seen. I’d never played in front of anything like this before in my life,” said Narell. “And the people knew all the music. In the middle of songs, I’d hear this roar from the audience and I’d realize that they were singing along with the music.”
Live in South Africa comes from a two-night stand at the end of his April 2000 tour. Narell reunited the band from his initial Johannesburg performances, all veterans of the South African music scene. The musicians bring a rich ethno-musical heritage to the performances. The band features guitarist Louis Mhlanga from Zimbabwe; keyboardist Andile Yenana from the eastern Cape; bassist Denny Lalouette from the island of Mauritius; drummer Rob Watson from Bloemfontein; and percussionist Basi Mahlasela from Soweto.
“A few gigs into this tour, I realized, this is really clicking,” says Narell. “The guys were more comfortable with the music and I started pushing them to experiment more and take more chances, open the music up and allow it to become more African.”
With Live in South Africa, Narell, who is one of the few steel pan players creating new jazz music for the instrument, again adds to his multicultural style with the addition of African musical and cultural grooves. The results are exhilarating.
* Dave Love - Executive Producer
* Robert Hoffman - Photo Montage
Steel pan virtuoso Andy Narell releases his first "live" recording Live in South Africa on this great two-disc enhanced CD recorded at the end of his April 2000 tour to which he played to a crowd estimated at between 60-80 thousand people. Joined by Louis Mhlanga on guitar, Danny Lalouette on bass, Andile Yenana on keyboards, Rob Watson on drums, and Basi Mahlasela on percussion, in the "engine room," Andy Narell plays one of the best sets of his career with this excellent band that is clearly in their comfort zone. The multicultural language he speaks on his steel pans on "Kalinda" and "Out of the Blue" is so expressive that you wouldn't believe these are actually instruments made from discarded steel oil drums. He slows the tempo down a bit on the ballad "Heads or Tails" and it's a real beauty. The pure tones and melodicism of Narell's steel pans shimmer with a romantic ambience that will make you fall in love if you aren't already. The "engine room" is wide open on "Hannibal's Revenge" and they are really pushing the envelope with the addition of African and cultural grooves. The tones Narell gets out of his pans are awesome. From the highest pitch of the Ping-Pong pan to the bass of the boom pan, Narell's playing is truly exhilarating. If you liked Fire in the Engine Room, Narell's 1999 release, then you are sure to love Live in South Africa. It's hot, it grooves, it's happy, and it rocks.
---Paula Edelstein, All Music Guide
Andy Narell
Active Decades: '70s, '80s, '90s and '00s
Born: Apr 18, 1954 in New York, NY
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Calypso, Contemporary Jazz, Crossover Jazz, Latin Jazz, Post-Bop, Steel Band, World Fusion
Andy Narell introduced the steel drums to jazz as a solo instrument, playing not only Caribbean and Latin melodies but R&B, funk, and some straight-ahead jazz. After graduating from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1973, he founded the Hip Pocket label (which became associated with Windham Hill) and has recorded on a regular basis both as a leader and as a sideman ever since. In 1995, Andy Narell became a co-leader of the Caribbean Jazz Project along with Paquito d'Rivera and Dave Samuals, a perfect outlet for his virtuosic and colorful playing. Since that time, Narell has released a handful of recordings including, among others, Live in South Africa in 2001, Passage in 2004, and Tatoom in 2007.
---Scott Yanow, All Music Guide |
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