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Derrick Gardner - Heavens to Murgatroyd!

from Still I Rise by Derrick Gardner

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“Heavens to Murgatroyd!” is a bit of an outlier. It looks back to the cartoons of my childhood and forward to the electronic innovations of hip-hop. This tune began with the boxed-in ragtime feel of a bass ostinato and repetitive harmonic figure. Once I had that going, I composed a melody—I was looking for something that would contrast with that pattern, but not get in the way of it. When I put them together, the combination was so humorous that I suddenly heard “Heavens to Murgatroyd!” in my head—in the voice of Snagglepuss, of course. I found this funny bells-and-chimes pattern that I remembered from a cartoon sound track, and had my engineer sample and loop it. It creates part of the oddball mechanical feel of the tune because it’s a 4/4 loop laid over a 3/4 tune. That off-balance feel is enhanced by the drums. For the ending vamp, I layered over a big drum solo with a bunch of old slapstick cartoon sound effects like horn-honking and that funny sound when a character takes off really fast. The whole tune is a hodgepodge bouquet of chaos— it’s crazy!

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credits

from Still I Rise, track released July 10, 2020
Soloists: Derrick Gardner (trumpet), Vincent Gardner (trombone), Rob Dixon (tenor), Curtis Nowosad (drums), DJ Stop (DJ)

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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