Michael Big Band Waldrop -Time Within Itself -Origin CD Grooves.land/Playthek

Details / Tracklist:

01. "El Vino"

02. "Tunnell Vision"

03. "Time Within Itself"

04. "Munich Musings"

05. "Inner Truth"

06. "Vistas"

07. "Her Moon Rises East"

08. "Twisted Barb"

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Time Within Itself by Michael -Big Band- Waldrop, released 8 April 2015, includes the following tracks: "Time Within Itself", "Inner Truth", "Her Moon Rises East" and more. This version of Time Within Itself comes as a 1xCD. -

Hearing this crackling big band recording - so full of swagger and conviction and transcendent playing throughout - it's hard to believe that it's drummer / composer Michael Waldrop's debut as a big band leader. No newcomer to the game, he paid dues as a working musician in New York and Chicago before pursuing an academic career, earning a masters at the University of Memphis and his doctorate at North Texas, where he played in the famed One O'Clock Lab Band. He also put in ten years with Jack Cooper's Memphis-based Jazz Orchestra of the Delta, developing the relationship that would lead Cooper to lend his prodigious arranging skills to Waldrop's set of originals for this recording.

Early in 2013 Michael Waldrop forwarded a portfolio of songs (jazz instrumentals) to Jack Cooper in order to commission big band arrangements. After Cooper arrived back from a trip to England in the Summer or 2013 he was finally able to assess to tunes a make some decisions. Because of the high quality of Waldrop's tunes it was suggested he try to pursue a whole commercial CD that would feature Waldrop. A substantial grant ($10,000) was obtained by Waldrop from Eastern Washington University to doing a CD. Both a commercial big band CD and a 'Music Minus One' (for students drummers) types of projects were pursued. Due to the complexity of having both types of recordings and the many cost prohibitive factors involved, the decision was made to recorded during the Summer of 2014 in Dallas, Texas. The studio used was Crystal Clear Sound located in the northern part of the city

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05706461

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