Michael Waldrop - Time Frames

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 andall things drumming. - Gordon Stout