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Native Son

By Michael Waldrop

Label: Origin Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Native Son; Vasconcelos; Pythia: The Speaking Water; El Vino; Belgrade (���֧�ԧ�ѧ�); Bitter End; Still Life; The Wrong Blues.

Michael Waldrop: Native Son

by Bill Milkowski
May 21, 2025

Following two successful big band projects--the swinging and swaggering Time Within Itself and Origin Suite--drummer-composer-bandleader Michael Waldrop has brought things down to a more intimate level on Native Son. In some ways a return to his first album as a leader, 2002's Triangularity, a sterling piano trio outing which he reissued in 2019, Native ...

Belgrade (���֧�ԧ�ѧ�)

April 24, 2025

Album: Native Son
By Michael Waldrop
Label: Origin Records
Released: 2025
Duration: 06:02

Time Frames

By Michael Waldrop

Label: Origin Classical
Released: 2021
Track listing: Fractals; Dem Dakar (Parables); Three Mediterranean Views: Le��n de Palamidi; Three Mediterranean Views: Notte a Venezia; Three Mediterranean Views: Ch?teau d'If; Almost Beyond; Delineations; Katrina's Path: Brazil; Katrina's Path: Cuba; Katrina's Path: New Orleans; Hollow; Sixth Chakra; Incoming; Tortoise Efficiency; Continuity.

Fractals

March 31, 2021

Album: Time Frames
By Michael Waldrop
Label: Origin Classical
Released: 2021
Duration: 02:24

Michael Waldrop: Origin Suite

by Jack Bowers
February 5, 2018

Drummer / vibraphonist Michael Waldrop's intriguing Origin Suite (deftly arranged by Jack Cooper) sweeps away musical boundaries to make its points, one of which is that big-band jazz needn't be ensnared in a time warp but is capable of changing with the times to engender songs that are as aesthetically pleasing as they are thematically stylish. ...

Michael Waldrop Big Band: Time Within Itself

by Jack Bowers
April 2, 2015

Drummer Michael Waldrop has named his inaugural album as leader of a big band Time Within Itself. An even more appropriate name might have been It's About Time. Waldrop, who has taught for the past decade or so at Eastern Washington University, boasts a resume as long as one's arm. It includes a master's degree from ...