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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“Soulful Brother Gelispie” is dedicated to drummer Randy Gelispie, one of the unsung heroes of jazz drumming. (There’s a great story about Randy and Dizzy playing a gig together, and Randy’s wife cussed out Dizzy on the phone, thinking he was Randy. After that, Dizzy would always say, “Hey be sure you contact your wife so she don’t cuss me out again!”) When you played with Randy, you knew you were in the presence of a great jazz innovator. One time, the Michigan State jazz faculty band was playing a concert and Randy and I were trading eights. I played my eight, and Randy responded with a groove that just knocked me off my feet—a soulful, mulit-layered groove that used the whole drum kit. I looked at him like he was an alien from another planet. He just looked back at me and smiled, like “yeah, that’s my stuff…” I built the whole tune around that groove, which is featured at the opening.