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Derrick Gardner - DAAAYUUUM

from Still I Rise by Derrick Gardner

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African-American culture has a particularly lively relationship with the English language—it’s actually considered a separate linguistic system called Ebonics. Hip-hop has brought a lot of this expressive language into broader usage, and I’m borrowing a simple but juicy expression for this tune. You see someone you’re really attracted to? You watch Michael Jordan executing one of his vicious slam dunks? Damn just doesn’t cut it—you’re looking for DAAAYUUUM!

I set up a deliberate, greasy blues melody that runs through the whole tune. You’ll hear a fall-off every second measure, after the last beat. That’s basically the melody mimicking the word—slowing it way down, stretching out those vowels. I wanted to feature my amazing trumpet section in this tune. I open with muted trumpet, then the section trades fours. As we arrived at the big shout section at the end, I was preparing to do a big screech solo when I realized that Bijon Watson could do this much better than I could. I said, “Hey, why don’t you take the screech solo while I play your lead part?” I have to say that was a good decision. On impulse, Bijon took the high figures I had written up into the stratosphere, and our jaws dropped to the ground. This is one shock-and-awe ending—DAAAYYUUUM!

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credits

from Still I Rise, track released July 10, 2020
Soloists: Derrick Gardner (trumpet), Bijon Watson (trumpet), Jeff Johnson (trumpet), Curtis Taylor (trumpet), Andrew Littleford (trumpet)

Saxophones:
1st Alto-Mark Gross
2nd Alto-Greg Gatien
1st Tenor-Rob Dixon
2nd Tenor-Tristen Martinuson
Bari-Ken Gold

Trumpets:
1st- Bijon Watson
2nd-Jeff Johnson
3rd-Curtis Taylor
4th-Andrew Littleford

Trombones:
1st-Vincent Gardner
2nd-Joel Green
3rd-Anthony Bryson
4th-Bill Green

Rhythm Section:
Piano-Zen Zadravec
Bass-Luke Sellick
Drums-Curtis Nowosad
Guitar- Kasey Kurtz

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