The Spirit of Panorama and More

CLIVE BRADLEY – The Spirit of Panorama and More

by - Garvin Blake - When Steel Talks

New York - The pan world has lost it's signature voice. Bradley embodied the spirit of panorama. It's inconceivable to envision panorama without him. Somewhere seeping through the canopies, you'll hear echoes of his artistry. His articulate phrasing, majestic harmonies and syncopated rhythms will be present in the music of current and future arrangers for generations. The legend will live.

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JUST REMEMBER THE MUSIC! - Clive Bradley

CLIVE BRADLEY – JUST REMEMBER THE MUSIC!

by - AH - When Steel Talks

New York - In Julius Caesar, Shakespeare wrote of the Roman warrior “The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.” So let it not be with Clive Bradley. I implore us all to remember the music that Bradley provided for us, the lion’s share of which was played on the pan.

Clive Bradley was renowned in the pan community for his arrangements for the likes of Pandemonium and Nutones, but he is mostly associated with the Desperadoes Steel Orchestra. Somehow Bradley was able to capture musically the pulse of the people of Lavantille Hill and communicate the essence of the people to the audience. The audiences were invariably moved, as evidently were the judges.

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