{"id":3270,"date":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jazzusa.com\/behind-the-bridge\/"},"modified":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","modified_gmt":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","slug":"behind-the-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/?p=3270","title":{"rendered":"Behind the Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><font size=\"4\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:14pt\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\" color=\"#0000FF\">    <\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"\/><\/font><\/b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"file:\/\/Nserver1\/wwwroot\/@jazzusa\/stories\/..\/storypix\/behindthebridge.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" alt=\"behindthebridge.jpg (3443 bytes)\" hspace=\"1\" align=\"left\"\/><strong><b><font face=\"Verdana\" color=\"#0000FF\"><big>Behind the Bridge<\/big><br \/><\/font><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"1\" color=\"#000000\">Andy Narell<\/font><\/b><\/strong>    <\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:10pt\">Due to be released September 15 <i>Behind The Bridge, <\/i>Andy  Narell&#8217;s ninth recording as a leade<i>r, <\/i>delivers a melting pot of Pan-American sounds<i>.  <\/i>This release finds Narell at his finest as both musician and producer, blending the  steel pan music of Trinidad with elements of American jazz and adding touches of Cuban  rumba, Brazilian samba, and other island and South American rhythms. Percussionists Luis  Conte and Paulinho da Costa and pianist Dario Eskenazi are prominently featured on  Narell&#8217;s new recording, with additional assistance from guitarists Kleber Jorge and Steve  Erquiaga and drummer Paul Van Wageningen.<\/font><\/p>\n<p>  <i>    <\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:10pt\">Behind The Bridge <\/font><\/p>\n<p><\/i>contains one Narell-penned song  (&#8220;Sea of Stories&#8221;), but its remaining eight tracks are inventive interpretations  of works by such composers as the late Cuban pianist Ernesta Lecuona and Brazil&#8217;s  &#8220;founding father of samba,&#8221; Alfredo da Rocha Viana, Jr. (better known as  Pixinguinha). Most were recorded live with no overdubbing.    <\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:10pt\">According to Narell, the new album&#8217;s title was inspired by  an isolated area on the lower east side of Port of Spain, Trinidad, which was settled in  the 1830s by former slaves and where the African tradition of drumming flourished despite  being banned by the island&#8217;s British rulers. Early in the 20th century, the area  &#8220;behind the bridge&#8221;&#8216; became one of the birthplaces of the steel pan.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:10pt\">Andy Narell was first drawn to steel pan music at age  seven, when his father worked with inner city youth to organize steel bands at a New York  community center. As a teenager, he began playing the steel pan professionally, and since  1966, has frequently traveled to Trinidad to meet, study and perform with the music&#8217;s  pioneers.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:10pt\">In addition to his work as a solo artist, Narell is  recognized for his performances with the critically-acclaimed Caribbean Jazz Project,  which also includes Paquito D&#8217;Rivera and Dave Samuels. The group&#8217;s eponymous debut album  (1995) and subsequent recording <i>Island Stories <\/i>(1997) were also released by Heads  Up International.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:10pt\">Andy Narell&#8217;s <i>Behind The Bridge is <\/i>an enhanced CD  featuring video, sound bytes, biographical information, graphics, and free internet  access, as do most releases fron Head&#8217;s Up.<\/font><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      <font size=\"1\"><cfinclude template=\"adbanner.asp\"\/><\/font>        <center>      <?php require($DOCUMENT_ROOT . \"_footer.htm\");   ??><\/center><\/body><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Behind the BridgeAndy Narell Due to be released September 15<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}