{"id":3397,"date":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jazzusa.com\/andy-narrell-the-passage\/"},"modified":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","modified_gmt":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","slug":"andy-narrell-the-passage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/?p=3397","title":{"rendered":"Andy Narrell &#8211; The Passage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"Right\"\/>\n<div align=\"left\"><font size=\"3\" color=\"Blue\" face=\"Verdana\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:16px\"><strong>Andy Narell and Calypsociation<\/strong><\/font><br \/><font size=\"4\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:18px\" color=\"Blue\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\">  <strong>The Passage: Music for Steel Orchestra<\/strong><\/font><br \/><font face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\" size=\"1\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:11px\">(Heads Up &#8211; 2004)<br \/> by Matthew Robinson<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/div>\n<p>  <font size=\"2\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:13px\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\" color=\"#000000\">  After a tough winter (or anytime), there&#8217;s nothing like escaping to the islands for some tropical relaxation. For those of us who can&#8217;t get away right now (or practically ever), steel drum ace Andy Narell offers an inexpensive alternative. Backed by the 30-plus-piece band Calypsociation, Narell takes listeners from the percolative (if not jittery)  &#8220;Coffee Street&#8221; to the sparkling and more tranquil &#8220;Sea of Stories.&#8221; On most of the seven tracks, the band is in such harmony that their playing often sounds like the work of one giant, resonant drum. <\/p>\n<p>However, the album is accented with a number of impressive solos and musical diversions, including those by sax masters Michael Brecker and Paquito D&#8217;Rivera and flugelhorn hero Hugh Masakela, who gives the onomatopoetically titular sound to &#8220;Dee Mwa Wee.&#8221; And even though Narell may take &#8220;The Long Way Back&#8221; (which is ironically the shortest piece) down a bumpy road, most of &#8220;The Passage&#8221; is at turns relaxing, energizing, and very danceable; a great musical trip no matter where you are.  <\/font>    <\/p>\n<p><font face=\"verdana\" size=\"1\">\u00a9 2004, M. S. Robinson, ARR<\/font>            <?php require($DOCUMENT_ROOT . \"_footer.htm\");   ??><\/body><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andy Narell and Calypsociation The Passage: Music for Steel Orchestra(Heads<\/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-3397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3397","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=3397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}