Jazz Articles about Andy Narell

Andy Narell: Sakesho

by Dave Nathan
July 5, 2002

If your kids have a way of taking out all the pots and pans from your cupboards and wacking away at them, encourage them. They may someday get it all together and turn out to be a steel pan artist like Andy Narell. In a few years, you could be dancing to the exciting rhythms of the Caribbean on the same spot those same kids were “practicing". Since 1979, Narell has not only applied his imagination and instrumentation to the ...

Andy Narell: Live in South Africa

by Dave Hughes
May 1, 2001

During the years of apartheid in South Africa, music from the rest of the world had difficulty finding its way into the country, both due to many artists joining the international boycott of the country to protest the policy and due to the state's tight import controls on anything cultural entering the country. But with the lifting of economic restrictions in the early 90's, residents had easier access to music from the rest of the world. Since it was still ...

Andy Narell: Fire In The Engine Room

by Jim Santella
May 1, 2000

Like his two recent albums with The Caribbean Project, Andy Narell’s latest brings gentle tropic breezes and smooth dance rhythms into your living room. Including a one-minute video of the Skiffle Bunch Steel Orchestra at last year’s Trinidad Panorama, this enhanced CD works either on a MAC or PC. An annual “battle of the bands" contest, the Panorama brings out steel drummers from all over.

Andy Narell is not a native of the Caribbean. Born in New York, he was ...