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Sakésho
12+ albums
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ANDY NARELL : “In my estimation, Sakesho is the single most important band I've heard in the World since Weather Report disbanded, and it will be my great honor to present this amazing and wonderful group…” Frank Malfitano Founder/Producer - Syracuse Jazz Fest Former Director - Detroit International Jazz Fest Over the course of 11 solo albums and 2 more as co-leader of the Caribbean Jazz Project(with Paquito D'Rivera and Dave Samuels), Andy Narell has pioneered the role of the steel pan in contemporary music. He has recorded with artists as diverse as Marcus Miller, Chucho Valdes, Bela Fleck, Aretha Franklin, Toto, and David Rudder, and has performed as a featured guest with Dr. Billy Taylor, Irakere, Tito Puente, Flora Purim and Airto, Freddie Hubbard, The WDR Big Band(Koln), 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 tv shows like Designing Women and Going to Extremes, as well as commercials for Apple Computers, Sony, Porsche, and Southwest Bell. As a bandleader he has played hundreds of concerts and jazz festivals throughout the US, Canada, Europe, Japan, the Caribbean, and South Africa. In 1999 Andy became the first foreigner to compose for Trinidad's Panorama steel band competition, guiding the 100 player Skiffle Bunch Steel Orchestra to the finals of both the 1999 and 2000 Panor
