Andy Narell
World Clinic
Saturday, 11:00 a.m.

Andy Narell Group
Evening Concert
Saturday, 8:00 p.m.

With his first solo album in 1979, Andy Narell took the steelpan out of the steelband and brought it into the jazz band. With every recording since, he has explored the possibilities and expanded the role of the pan in contemporary music. He’s made more than a dozen albums as leader, two more as co-leader of the Caribbean Jazz Project, and two as co-leader of Sakésho. And along the way he has worked with artists as diverse as Chucho Valdes, Bela Fleck, Marcus Miller, David Rudder, Black Stalin, Spyro Gyra, Steve Smith/Vital Information, John Patitucci, Jimmy Haslip, Vusi Mahlasela, Dr. Billy Taylor, Irakere, Tito Puente, Flora Purim and Airto, Vince Mendoza and The WDR Big Band (Koln), Angelique Kidjo, Etienne Mbappé, Mokhtar Samba, Nancy Wilson, Toto, Aretha Franklin, and the Kronos String Quartet. He has performed on movie scores by James Horner, Maurice Jarre, Elmer Bernstein, Hans Zimmer, Michel Colombier, and Thomas Newman, and his compositions have been featured in the film The Firm, and on television shows like Designing Women and Going to Extremes. As a bandleader, he has played hundreds of concerts and at jazz festivals throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Japan, the Caribbean, South America, and South Africa. In 1999 Narell, became the first foreigner to compose for Trinidad’s Panorama steel band competition, guiding the Skiffle Bunch Steel Orchestra to the finals of both the 1999 and 2000 Panoramas. He has been an artist in residence at several universities and schools including: University of North Texas, Wichita State University, University of West Virginia, University of Akron, University of Illinois, Northern Illinois, and University of Southern Mississippi. Narell is currently living in Paris and working with Sakésho and the Andy Narell Steelband Project.