The compact disc comes in a very nice black & white 4-panel digipak with a 12-page booklet displaying lots of great pictures from the actual recording session. Liner notes authored by the associate editor of dig! magazine, Charlene Diehl and graphic design by John Funk.
This project is funded in part by FACTOR, the Government of Canada and Canada’s private radio broadcasters. Ce projet est financé en partie par FACTOR, le gouvernement du Canada et les radiodiffuseurs privés du Canada
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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!
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)