Pan Player, Pan Tuner
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ALDWYN 'Madman' JORDAN Pan Player, Pan Tuner |
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Aldwyn Jordan, better known as 'Madman', is one of the unsung heroes of the Steelband Movement.
He spent most of his life training panmen and helped convert Nocturne Fascinators from a 'Pan Round de Neck' to a Conventional band.
He merged two other small bands and entered the Independence festival of 1962; and placed 3rd with his own composition At Noon.
In 1965 he merged Nocturne with the Tunapuna band Fascinators for Panorama. [Now Nocturne Fascinators - 1998]
He obtained a year at the corner of Charlotte and Park Streets
(1) and played Blakie's Ko Kie O Ko.He also, in the 1960s helped to form [Arima] Angel Harps. He tuned pans for quite a number of the Tunapuna bands; as well as Despers, Tripoli, Silver Stars, Tornadoes and also San Juan All Stars.
He also assisted Robert Greenidge and the Headley Brothers.
© 1997 Gideon Maxime: Pg 205; PAN THROUGH THE YEARS (1952 - 1996)
(1) This reference is a matter of research for these pages
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