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the Pan-Detroit Ensemble
Detroit
Bio
The Pan-Detroit Ensemble is bassist, producer, and Blue Note president Don Was’s Detroit band, built to carry what he calls the city’s raw groove. The nine-piece mixes rock, jazz, funk, and reggae on the album Groove in the Face of Adversity, released on Mack Avenue, and the Cambridge set also takes on the Grateful Dead album Blues for Allah in full. Was has said the group was assembled by going back to Detroit players who attack their instruments like the city itself.
The band
Don Was
Detroit-raised bassist, producer, and Blue Note Records president who leads the Pan-Detroit Ensemble.
Dave McMurray
Saxophonist and longtime Was collaborator, also a Blue Note artist, in the Pan-Detroit Ensemble.
Vincent Chandler
Trombonist in the Pan-Detroit Ensemble.
John Douglas
Trumpeter in the Pan-Detroit Ensemble.
Jeff Canady
Drummer named in the Arts Fuse preview of the ensemble’s Cambridge show.
Mahindi Masai
Percussionist in the Pan-Detroit Ensemble.
Wayne Gerard
Guitarist in the Pan-Detroit Ensemble.
Steffanie Christi'an
Vocalist in the Pan-Detroit Ensemble.
Phil Whitfield
Keyboardist described as a new recruit for the ensemble’s Groove in the Face of Adversity shows.
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