Steelpan Jazz Sold Out Saturday 16th

Steelpan Jazz at the House of Jazz at Lincoln Center featuring headliners Robert Greenidge (pan), Ralph MacDonald (percussion) and David Rudder (voice) has come and gone.  This event, organised by Abstract Entertainment Inc. (AEI), took place in Lincoln Center’s Allen Room in New York this past Saturday, June 16 to a full house crowd, sold out to overflowing – outside.

Each of these top draw artists performed select compositions from their extensive repertoires to highlight the steelpan since this was a celebration of the one instrument to have been invented in the twentieth century, and most importantly, in the Caribbean island of Trinidad. 

According to the website of “When Steel Talks,” MacDonald performed the unforgettable “Just the Two of Us.”  (I still own a well preserved cassette recording of that track from Grover Washington Jr.’s Winelight album (1980).  

Greenidge was the pan soloist to carry the torch for the pan.  However, he was admirably supported  by a cast of Caribbean Jazz icons in the persons of Nicholas Brancker (bass), Arturo Tappin (sax), Etienne Charles (trumpet), Scott Galt (guitar) among other notable extra-regional practitioners of the Jazz music genre, Buddy Williams (drums) and Onaje Allan Gumbs (keyboards).

 

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