Jazz Night with Panjumby

Our January band will be bringing music and rhythms from the sunny Carribean and South America.

Come on down and groove the night away,

Panjumby are:

Dudley Nesbitt, steel pan, cowbell

Richard Ormrod, sax, flute, percussion

Barclay McKay, keyboard, guitar

Paul Baxter, bass

Sam Hobbs, drums

Led by steel-pannist Dudley Nesbitt, Panjumby are a five-piece band with a repertoire of Modern Jazz, Contemporary Calypso and classic Latin tunes from Brazil, Cuba, Trinidad and Jamaica, the crew are a high-energy group of engaging and accessible performers.

Nesbit grew up in Trinidad and was a child prodigy on the steel pan, eventually becoming a regular arranger for the prestigious annual Panorama competition at a very young age. He has an extraordinary musical mind and is fully capable of composing a through-written piece of music for a pan orchestra of over a hundred players in his head, teaching them all their parts from memory without recourse to scores or notes, or of orchestrating pieces from the classical canon for the same size ensemble.

He is one of the world’s prime exponents of steel pan; one of the few musicians to truly translate steel pan techniques into a jazz context and to bring a group close to understanding the real underpinnings of Calypso, Soca & Trinidadian rhythm.

The present line-up has been steady for fifteen years, and the musicians have developed the kind of instinctive rapport that most groups nowadays can only aspire to.

Free admission, collection towards the band taken, please be generous if you can.