12) Released October 1st, 2021

 

Hear and download ​ Turn on the Light (320 kbps mp3)

Hear and download ​ an instrumental-only version

Turn on the LightTrack Notes and Credits

11) Released September 3rd, 2021

For the first time, due to the mayhem caused by Hurricane Ida, Panorama comes up a couple days late…

Hear and download ​ Week 23 (320 kbps mp3)

Week 23Track Notes and Credits

10) Released July 1st, 2021

 

Hear and download ​ Peace Anthem (320 kbps mp3)

Peace Anthem Track Notes and Credits

9) Released May 1st, 2021

Hear and download ​ Party on the Levee (320 kbps mp3)

Party on the Levee Track Notes and Credits

8) Released September 1st, 2020

Track Notes and Credits

Download Oh, By The Way… (320 kbps mp3)

7) Released August 1st, 2020

Track Notes and Credits

Download Sudoku (320 kbps mp3)

6) Released July 1st, 2020

Track Notes and Credits

Download Why Not (320 kbps mp3)

5) Released June 1st, 2020

Track Notes and Credits

Download New Banjo Thing (320 kbps mp3)

4) Released January 1st, 2019

I don’t want to say too much about this track, I’d like the music to speak for itself and I’d really like to know how it feels to you after you’ve had a chance to listen to it. What I can tell you is that, when I wrote my “Solo for Clarinet” in the early part of 1986, I was 22 years old, living with my mom in Annapolis MD, and preparing for my senior concert at Bennington College (VT) later that year. I was also listening to a lot of Lester Young, in particular his beautiful reading of a tune called “I Don’t Stand A Ghost of A Chance With You.” Check it out some time.

Download Solo for Clarinet (320 kbps mp3)

If I remember correctly (for what it’s worth), I believe the first day I sat down to write was January 28, the day the space shuttle Challenger exploded, killing all seven crew members aboard. That’s something you don’t easily forget and was definitely on my mind in those days but I never thought of this as an hommage. For me though there is an image of a little shoot pushing it’s way out of the soil, through some gravel, or broken concrete and reaching for the sunlight.

In the end, the final result is something that is very dear to me, a piece I’ve
returned to over and over again in the past 33 years and I’m really happy to have an opportunity to share it with you. Although I’ve performed it a handful of times, this is the first time I’ve tried to record it.

I’d also like to dedicate this release to the memory of two men I studied with at Bennington, Gunnar Schonbeck (clarinet) and Lou Calabro (composition).

Happy New Year, thanks for listening and thanks for your support.
Ben Schenck
Panorama Jazz Band
New Orleans, LA

3) Released March 1st, 2015

As Panorama celebrates our 20th year, we are joined by another New Orleans institution, ArtSpot Productions, which also began performing around the same time and whose evolution has paralleled ours these past two decades. In 1996 Panorama clarinetist and founder, Ben Schenck, appeared in a piece ArtSpot and director Kathy Randels produced called How To Be a Man in the 21^st Century.  This month’s release is a song that Ben wrote for that show and ArtSpot included in their 2012 CD, I Know This To Be True.

Download Peacock Tail Feather (mp3)