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How are folks doing out there? It's been an intense week in a very difficult phase of our collective life. Can we figure out how to finally change the system that targets Black men with violence? Maybe in some small way good music can help.

Your Panorama track for June 1, 2020 is something you haven't heard since our third CD, "Come Out Swingin'" in 2010: an original composition by yours truly! (See "The Cockroach Song" along with "If You Love Me" from our second CD, "Panoramaland.")

In fact this is the first of three brand new tunes that we recorded last Monday. Not that the music itself could be considered in any way topical or even particularly relevant given everything that's going on right now. But I do believe that instrumental music functions on another level, bypassing the mind and feeding the spirit. Which, if it brings good energy, could only be a positive thing.

You can definitely say this is a fun track. For this session, since Panorama banjoman Gary Washington is sheltering in place with his girlfriend in the U.K., we invited Panorama's "Banjo Emeritus," Patrick Mackey to front a four piece in the studio and take the lead on a number I'm calling the New Banjo Thing.

As distressing as this period is, it's been really great to have the free time and headspace to write some new music. I hope you like it and will look forward to more because I do have a few other things in the works.

Thanks for your support. Please stay well and have courage! I'm working on that myself.

At your service,
Ben Schenck
Clarinetist / Leader
Panorama Jazz Band
New Orleans, LA

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from Song​-​of​-​the​-​Month Club: Good Music For You, track released June 1, 2020
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Panorama Jazz Band
Michael Ward-Bergeman - Accordion
Patrick Mackey - Tenor Banjo
Matt Perrine - Tuba
Doug Garrison - Drum Set
Songwriter - Ben Schenck (ASCAP)/Snack Daddy Music
Recorded, edited, mixed and mastered by Lu Rojas at Oak Street Recording, New Orleans, LA
Photo by Greg Miles
Graphic design - Ben Schenck

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"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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