Panorama Jazz Band

The Panorama Jazz Band Invites Its Audience to Play Along

Source: All About Jazz
June 26, 2009

For the past 14 years, the Panorama Jazz Band's variegated mash-up of world beats has consistently challenged expectations about what New Orleans jazz can be. Equally at home anchoring a second-line parade as a traditional Jewish wedding, the band's raucous party music, which it has performed everywhere from Gypsy campfires to Carnival parades, combines sounds from all over the globe. According to bandleader and clarinetist Ben Schenk, the group's polyglot repertoire would be nothing without the historic discipline of a ...
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