Fire in the Engine Room

Biography

Andy Narell (born March 18, 1954 in New York City, US) is a musician and composer specialized in the steelpan. He took up the steelpan at a very young age in Queens, New York. His father was a social worker who invited Ellie Mannette to bring steel pan to New York city in an attempt to get kids off the streets, out of gangs, and into steelbands. In his teen-age years Andy moved to California. Narell has performed with the Caribbean Jazz Project, Montreux, Sakésho, and Bela Fleck and the Fleckto...

Andy Narell (born March 18, 1954 in New York City, US) is a musician and composer specialized in the steelpan. He took up the steelpan at a very young age in Queens, New York. His father was a social worker who invited Ellie Mannette to bring steel pan to New York city in an attempt to get kids off the streets, out of gangs, and into steelbands. In his teen-age years Andy moved to California. Narell has performed with the Caribbean Jazz Project, Montreux, Sakésho, and Bela Fleck and the Flecktones. He additionally composed and arranged music for Trinidad's national steelband competition Panorama.
Andy's brother, Jeff Narell, is a pan player with his own style and records.

Discography
Solo / with various
Hidden Treasure (Inner City, 1979)
Stickman (Windham Hill Records, 1981)
Light in Your Eyes (Windham Hill Records, 1983)
Slow Motion (Windham Hill Records, 1985)
The Hammer (Windham Hill Records, 1987)
Little Secrets (Windham Hill Records, 1989)
Down the Road (Windham Hill Records, 1992)
The Long Time Band (Windham Hill Records, 1995)
Behind the Bridge (Heads Up, 1998)
Fire in the Engine Room (Heads Up, 2000)
Live in South Africa (Heads Up, 2001)
The Passage (Heads Up, 2004.)
Tatoom (Heads Up, 2007)
University of Calypso w/Relator (Heads Up, 2009)

With Montreux
Live at Montreux (Windham Hill, 1984)
Chiaroscuro (Windham Hill, 1985)
Sign Language (Windham Hill), 1987)

With Caribbean Jazz Project
The Caribbean Jazz Project (Heads Up, 1995)
Island Stories (Heads Up, 1997)

With Sakésho
Sakésho (Heads Up, 2002)
We Want You to Say... (Heads Up, 2005)

Collections
Sampler '96 (Windham Hill Records, 1996)
A Winter's Solstice III (Windham Hill Records, 1990)
The Bach Variations (Windham Hill Records, 1994)
A Winter's Solstice IV (Windham Hill Records, 1993)

Guest appearances
Brazil Duets (Mike Marshall)
Outbound (Béla Fleck and the Flecktones)
Live at the Quick (Béla Fleck and the Flecktones)
The seventh one (Toto)
Lunatic Taxi (Sixun)
Good to Go-Go (Spyro Gyra)
Happy Just to Be Like I Am (Taj Mahal)
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