he bought a steel pan of his own to play along with Binghamton High School's Jazz Ensemble. "Everybody loved it," said Smales, a music teacher at the school. "I got some old drums, and from ...

The steel drum, also called ... where the pan takes pride of place as the national instrument. In the early days, Trinidadian musicians, not being able to afford other instruments, used trash cans and ...

EGG HARBOR – Hear the unmistakable sound of a steel pan, aka steel drum, and you must be listening to music of the Caribbean or South Pacific, right? Not necessarily so, says Liam Teague ...

are preparing for the fourth annual Pan Jam Steel Drum Festival today in Kemah. The Moores School of Music added steel drums to its percussion ensemble program in 1999, when a former student ...

Serious jazz on the steel pan — jazz imbued with the historical vocabulary of swing, bebop and the blues, and not, as Provost puts it, simply “improvised music” — may not be crazy.