CLIVE BRADLEY was a master musician, a cut above the rest, a genius, and a musical legend.

These were just some of the comments made by his colleagues in the pan fraternity, at his funeral last week Friday, at the Church of the Immaculate Conception.

Panorama would never be the same without Clive Bradley, they all agreed.

“He erupted the Savannah with his arrangements,” said Junior Minister of Culture and Gender Affairs, Eddie Hart.

“He was so easy to com-municate with and he was also very intelligent,” added Hart.

Hart said he hoped the younger steelpan arrangers would emulate Bradley’s good work.

“Laventille should have a wall of achievers from the area,” Hart continued.

He said it should include names like Rudolph Charles and Clive Bradley.

Bradley was also described as a mentor by some of the pan players who attended the funeral.

“He was a maestro and his sense of humour used to relax players,” said former president of Pan Trinbago and manager of Solo Pan Knights, Owen Serrette.

“I cannot recall him ever getting vex with anybody.

“He has left a hole in the Panorama competition.”

Steelpan arranger Ray Holman said: “His music was spiritual and wonderful, and his musical taste was exquisite.

“His music penetrated your soul.”

“We have lost an icon in the music business,” said calypsonain The Original de Fosto.

“ He was one of the best arrangers and Panorama would be greatly lost without him.”

“He gave us something to remember,” said soca artiste SuperBlue.

“I hope that we get a radio station to promote local talented music and have somewhere to archive good music,” said former senator Shabazz Mohammed.

“My last encounter with Bradley was the Wednesday before he passed away,” explained music composer and arranger Alvin Daniell.

“He introduced me to a young composer name Dennison ‘Diamond’ Moses, who composed a pan song arranged by Bradley,” added Daniell.

“Strangely, he told me that he was leaving the young guy in my care, as if he knew he was going.

“I am putting that song, which is sung by Skatie, on my Pan Tunes CD for 2006; I have named it A Musical Treat.”

Panorama 2006 would be dedicated to Bradley, according to Pan Trinbago president Patrick Arnold.

Scores of musicians, including, steelpan players, arrangers, tuners, and calypsonians attended the funeral to say their final goodbye to Bradley.

It was the first time outside of Panorama that so much panmen were gathered together in one place.

Father Clive Harvey, who performed the last rites, said that Bradley was a man in the band with a rhythm in his hand.

His funeral was complimented with steelpan music from WITCO Desperadoes.