Release Date: 13 August 2021
Label: Origin Classical
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 805553302522
Genres: Jazz  Contemporary Classical  
Release Date: 13 August 2021
Label: Origin Classical
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 805553302522
Genres: Jazz  Contemporary Classical  
Description
While featuring the marimba as a melodic instrument throughout "Time Frames," percussionist Michael Waldrop fully celebrates its origins as an African percussion instrument, creating provocative rhythmic undercurrents to offset his soaring melodies and improvisations. Surrounding himself with other renowned and musically diverse percussionists Gordon Stout, Brad Dutz, Jose Rossy and Marko Djordjevic, the heightened rhythmic colorings propel Waldrop's five original compositions. Jack Cooper's expansive "Three Mediterranean Views" gives space to pianist Steve Snyder, while two drumsets provide the hurricane power behind "Katrina's Path." Famed marimbist Gordon Stout's "Incoming" is a virtuosic study for himself on marimba and Waldrop on drumset. Stylistically vast—from delicate, classical chamber music, to intricate, groove-laden marimba and percussion atmospheres, or ferocious waves of drums—"Time Frames" retains a musical center, one that revels in the deep, fundamental human connection to rhythm.
"...infused with influences from minimalism, popular music, and other styles and genres, but always informed with musical sensibility, harmonic sophistication and intelligence. Most importantly, Michael Waldrop is both a lifelong fan and staunch devotee of both mallet keyboard percussion and
all things drumming." - Gordon Stout
Tracklisting
arx duo
Naama Liany
Michael Waldrop
Josh Nelson
Jim Gailloreto's Jazz String Quintet & Cheryl Wilson
Emi Meyer
Dan Dean
Corey Christiansen
Michael Waldrop