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 ...

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, ...

When Andy Narell was growing up in New York City, his father was a Lower East Side social worker with an eye out for ways to keep kids off the streets. The elder Narell hired a neighborhood man to ...

The Hartt School presents The 2013-2014 Richard P. Garmany Chamber Music Series, featuring Andy Narell and his ensemble, on Thursday, November 21, at 7:30 PM, in Millard Auditorium, University of ...

French guitarist's Philippe Coignet's new ensemble recording is like that of a well-rooted tree with many powerful branches reaching out uniquely, but collectively connecting back to its inner core.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lovers of Caribbean sounds, and world music listeners in general, are in for a pre-Valentine’s Day treat when Andy Narell brings the 14-piece steel drum band Calypsociation from Paris to the Chabot ...

US-born pan/jazz musician Andy Narell will be arranging for Birdsong steelband for Panorama 2013. The news which has been creating a quiet buzz in the steelband world for several months, was made ...