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playedwithall thebest
Both showsbegin at 8 p.m.
Is there any jazz legend Max Alsonext Sunday,at the Granville
Roachhasn't playedwithin the past Island Arts Club, another kind of •
40 years?
drummercan be heard.
The 64-yearAndy Narell, 33, learned to play
old drummer,
the steel drums from Trinidadian
who visits the
immigrantsin his native New York
Vancouver
City. Steel drums - made from oil
East Cultural
barrels that are hammered, fired
Centre for two
and tuned into melodicinstruments
nights next
.- were developedin Trinidadin the
Sunday and
1930s.
Monday,has a
Narell has popularizedthe instruresume that
ment in the U.S.,leading bands on
reads like a MAX ROACH five album dates and appearing on
Who's Who of
movie soundtracks (48
music:Miles Davis,CliffordBrown, several
Cocoon,Ghostbusters).
TheloniousMonk,BudPowell,Cecil Hours,
Hisapproachis lesssteeped in the
Taylor, Charlie Parker, Coleman Afro-Latin
roots of the instrument,
Hawkins...
and
more
geared
to pop and R&B.
Equally at home with a bebop
comboor, as on his Survivorsalbum, Appearingwith Narell at the 7:30
a stringquartet, Roachis a master of p.m.concert are Americanguitarist
versatility.He does,however,prefer Steve Erquiaga, Jamaican bassist
to work with small groups in which Keith Jones and Dutch drummer
the drums have a distinct voice.He Paul Van Wageningen.
ofteneschewspiano,explainingthat
Meanwhile, the New Orchestra
the instrument"can sometimeslock Workshop's spring concert series
you into static harmonicand rhyth- movesinto weekthree at the French
mic attitudes."
Cultural Centre this weekend,with
Appearing with Roach for the the MichaelBlake Quartet (ThursVECCdates are trumpeter Cecil day), Lunar Adventures (Friday)
Bridgewater, saxophonist Odean and the GrahamOrd Trio (Friday).
Pope and bassist Tyrone Brown. All concertsbeginat 8:30p.m.
By MARK ANDREWS