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This is the first track to come out from a recording session we did on May 16 and the first track in our entire catalog to include Simon Lott on drums! Simon has been on the Panorama roster since like 2010 but somehow never made a recording session until now.

If you've heard Simon play, with Panorama or anybody else, you'll remember that grin, that joy in the moment and that snap in the wrist. Whenever I set down my clarinet and go to either the shaker or the tambourine, I turn around to look at him and sync up the pocket. He’s always right there ready to party.

The whole concept of this session was to set up in the studio in a circle, review a batch of tunes from our first three albums, take two or three swings at each one, not overthink them too much and capture performances. In fact we only did one take of "Asi Paré" and knew we'd nailed it.

Have you heard our first CD, "Another Hot Night In February" (2003)? It still has a vibe 20 years later, if I do say so myself. Because it is such a hot one, "Asi Paré" has been in the Panorama repertoire since gig #1 (November 19, 1995) and it was necessarily included on the album. For comparison, try listening to that version next to this one.

The phrase "asi paré" is Creole for "enough talk," as in "say no more" or, as we say in New Orleans, "yeah you right." I learned the tune from an early 1930s recording by Don Baretto et Son Orchestre Cubain but it's originally a vocal number written by Leona Gabriel and recorded with Alexandre Stellio in 1930.

Thanks for listening! Put this one on your "Summer Fun" playlist.

At your service,

Ben Schenck
Panorama Jazz Band
Panorama BRASS Band
New Orleans, LA

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from Song​-​of​-​the​-​Month Club: Good Music For You, released May 1, 2015
Panorama Jazz Band
Ben Schenck - Clarinet
Aurora Nealand - Alto Saxophone
Charlie Halloran – Trombone
Michael Ward-Bergeman - Accordion
Mark Rubin - Tenor Banjo
Matt Perrine - Tuba
Simon Lott - Drum Set

Music by Leona Gabriel (PD)
Arranged by Schenck, Nealand, Halloran, Ward-Bergeman, Rubin, Perrine, Lott
Recorded and edited by Rick Nelson May 16, 2023 at Marigny Studios, New Orleans, LA.
Overdubs, mixing and mastering by Lu Rojas
Cover photo by Rick Nelson
Graphic design by Ben Schenck

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Panorama Jazz Band / Panorama Brass Band - New Orleans New Orleans, Louisiana

"New Orleans' genre fluid jazz band"

The Panorama Jazz Band and the Panorama Brass Band have been working steadily in New Orleans and beyond since 1995. Many hundreds of nightclub gigs, festivals, weddings, crawfish boils and Mardi Gras parades have added to this community of musicians' collective experience, all of which they bring to each of their recordings. ... more

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