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01. Rudy Smith Quartet - Blues L'Armoise
02. Rudy Smith Quartet - Ursia
03. Rudy Smith Quartet - Elise
04. Rudy Smith Quartet - Blues For Bradick
05. Rudy Smith Quartet - Be Bach
06. Rudy Smith Quartet - Still Around
07. Rudy Smith Quartet - El Vito
ARTIST
TITLE
Still Around
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
EM 1073CD EM 1073CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
12/10/2007

The album Still Around is the first record Rudy Smith made under his own name, and it is considered a classic and one of his best. In the long history of Pan music, both in Trinidad and internationally, this is one of the very few albums to feature Pan as the leading voice in a pure jazz setting. His group the Modern Sound Quintet played disco/reggae/jazz fusion, changing their name to the Modern Sound Corporation in the late 1970s. After extensive touring throughout Europe, they broke up in 1980. Rudy Smith moved to Denmark in 1983, where he decided to return to the music he loved, jazz and be-bop, forming the Rudy Smith Quartet. The group included Ole Mathiessen (piano), Niels Præstholm (bass) and a South African drummer, Gilbert Matthews. There is an international inspiration for the music on the 1984 album Still Around, featuring an Asian element, mixed with a dash of European, as well as American jazz. Rudy Smith is referred to as the jazz king of steel pans, and in Denmark as the father of the steel pan.