Search - Liam Teague, Robert Chappell :: For Lack of Better Words

Liam Teague is on a mission. His goal: to demonstrate to the world that the steelpan (steel drum), the national instrument of his homeland, Trinidad and Tobago, W. Indies, is capable of so much more than playing lilting melodies on cruise ships or island-themed parties. Teague, a true virtuoso on his unique instrument, can play anything from calypso to bebop jazz to classical concertos with symphony orchestra. This CD brings long time musical colleagues Liam Teague and Robert Chappell (piano, marimba, Indian tabla) together to advance steelpan performance and composition. For Lack of Better Words combines classical arrangements, highly original jazz and world compositions by Chappell and Teague, calypsos from Trinidad, and even 1920?s ragtime into a tour de force that highlights the lyrical, rhythmic, and improvisatory possibilities of the steelpan, arguably the most important acoustic instrument invented in the twentieth-century.