Page 28, TRINIDAD GUARDIAN, Tuesday, October 31, 1995 Musical fireworks at Panjazz VII By PETER RAY BLOOD Thursday for the pre- The three-night event some outstanding pan- ing national Panorama - -miere of Trinidad & will feature some of the nists as well. champion Amoco SPEKTAKULA FO- Tobago Pan Jazz Fes- best jazz musicians in The opening night Renegades, Claude RUM comes to life on tival VII, at 8.30pm. the world, including billing includes reign- Sommier's Quintet DJOA, foreign-based pannist Anise Hadeed and Jerry Gonzalez and The Fort Apache Band. Renegades is ac- claimed for having one of the most extensive repertoires owned by any steel orchestra at home or abroad. On Thursday night, the band is expected to be as exhilarating and at home with jazz as it is with calypso music. In recent years, Rene- gades has thrilled mammoth audiences in France and Japan so nothing less than the best in pan jazz is ex- pected from this top THE FORT APACHE BAND includes, from left, Steve Berrios, Andy Gonzalez, Jerry Gonzalez, John Stubblefield, Larry Willis and east Port-of-Spain or- Joe Ford. chestra. renowned. He is con- , At the age of 12, pannist and their well as an innovator in A member of Phase vinced that the flexi- Anise firat met Len meeting was a turning style...an adventurous II Pan Groove, Anise bility of the instrument "Boogsie" Sharpe, his point and motivating and progressive style Hadeed has devoted makes it compatibleto mentor and friend. He factor, in Anise's mu- he has taken through- his life towards making any genre of music, es- considered Boogsie to sical aspirations. out the countries of pan internationally pecially the jazz idiom. be the world's finest "Nobody at that time Europe and the — jMfrMMi

^ I THE FORT APACHE BAND includes, from left, Steve Berrios, Andy Gonzalez, Jerry Gonzalez, John Stubblefield, Larry Willis and '• jOG roro. renowned. He is con- At the age of 12, pannist and their well as an innovator in vinced that the flexi- Anise first met Len meeting was a turning style.'..an adventurous bility of the instrument "Boogsie" Sharpe, his point and motivating and progressive style makes it compatible to mentor and friend. He factor, in Anise's mu- he has taken through- any genre of music, es- considered Boogsie to sical aspirations. out the countries of pecially the jazz idiom. be the world's finest "Nobody at that time' Europe and the was playing steel drum Caribbean. When it like he was," says comes to jazz stages he Anise of Boogsie's in- is no stranger having dividualistic musical performed with the style. "Playing this in- best at prestigious fes- OTICE strument had always tivals like the Berlin been more of a robot Jazz Festival, the Nyon function. A man Folk Festival in showed you what you Switzerland, the Poiti- SALE BY were supposed to play er Folk Festival in and that was that. It France and the World was a rare thing to go Festival of Youth and RTGAGEE around a steelband Students in Cuba. yard and hear a man Born in Martinique, just parrying on and ex- Claude Sommier leads 15 Chateaux Village pressing himself on a some very talented mu- steel drum. It used to sicians under the ban- happen a lot in the ear- ner of DJOA, including Situated at ly days, but those days Andre Villeger, Marc faded away. When Michel, Francois co Road, Petit Valley steelbands began to Laizeau and Xavier grow bigger and bigger, Desaiidre. jvel 3 bedroom, 2 it just became more au- DJOA is a melodic, tomated. So it was a percussive jazz based real opportunity to be quintet. The combina- joom townhouse exposed to someone tion of saxophones, ; like Boogsie." acoustic bass, piano, To broaden his mu- drums and percussion sical scope, Anise ven- results in a boldly offers in writing to tured to London in rhythmic music with 1979J There he helped influences ranging bmmerce Trinidad and form the seven-piece, from Dollar Brand to instrume.ntally-mixed the post-Coltranian bbago Limited Breakfast Band. world of McCoy Tyner. Through the years, Claude founded ?ie Court, Maraval Anise has worked with DJOA in 1985. His com- a number of other positions are coloured by renowned artistes, in- the traditional Mar- >2-1659/1502 cluding Japanese mu- tinique rhythms and are sician Akira Inoue, Bil- influenced by Afro-Latin EE DOES NOT BIND ITSELF TO ly Ocean and David and bebop music. In HIGHEST OR ANY OFFER. Rudder. short, a unique combi- Although he has nevi nation of bebop, bolero, er been formally beguine, calypso and be- 102735 trained in music, Anise lia. is a gifted musician, as (Continued on Page 29) TRINIDADIAN Anise Hadeed will line up with Claude Sommi- er's iXJOA Quintet oh Thursday night at Spektakula Forum.

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(From Page 28)- :- ^^.siv Anise Hadeed will be the featured pannist with Claude Sommier' s D JO A Quintet. For nearly 15 years, the Fort Apache Band has been one of ;the;few authentic standard-bearers of what carvrightfully belcalled "Latin jazz." The Fort Apache visiori has organically evolved from the backgrounds of its founding members. Born of Puerto Rican heritage in New York City, Jerry Gonzalez, Andy Gonzalez and Steve Berrios all grew up with their ears and hearts open to both jazz and Latin music. "Whenever I heard jazz - Trane, Miles or Monk - 1 heard the Cuban rhythms with all along, says Jerry. In 1970, at the age of 21, he was given the chance tp 'apply that understanding, working with Dizzy Gillespie for a yean "Dizzy proved that you can superirnppsei ;mithentic bebop over a complex Latin rhythmic bass:with6ut watering either of them;downjx Jerry ^xplains. "I don't want to com- promise the rhythm a^ misethejazzplayihg,"? .'.. ; - •» ; Openmgnighii,of Bail- Jazz VII promises to be nothirig less than, rnusical fireworks, showcasing the virtuosity of ibur;tough acts who don't com- promise^ when it comes to music.