For a JazzSet with built-in sunshine, tune in for Andy Narell and the steel pan orchestra Calypsociation from Paris, at the 2005 Portland Jazz Festival in Oregon. Decades ago in the Caribbean, ...

Andy Narell has spent more than a quarter century exploring the subtleties and complexities of steel pan and grafting them to the jazz idiom. He's one of only a small handful of steel pan players in ...

There are times when you have to admire an artistic effort for its sheer audacity if nothing else. Andy Narell's Tatoom is one such statement. Commercial considerations aside, Narell is doing nothing ...

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Andy Narell has spent most of his life pushing the physical, geographical and musical limits of the pan.That work recently ...

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Andy Narell’s journey started not in the West Indies or Africa or Brazil, but rather where they all meet–on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, where he first heard a steel-pan drum played by an ...

The steel drum is the national instrument of Trinidad and Tobago, but for Andy Narell, the gleaming pans made from 55-gallon oil barrels serve as a passport to the international music scene. Hailed in ...

Band members: International steel pan player Narell joins band director James Coviak and a student ensemble. Claim to fame: Coviak founded the Michigan-based ensemble in 1997, and he includes steel ...

Musician Andy Narell has made his name by coaxing tunes out of sawed-off oil barrels. He's one of the best-known performers on the steel pan, also known as the steel drum. As part of the NPR series ...