{"id":989,"date":"2020-08-03T16:43:31","date_gmt":"2020-08-03T21:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.derrickgardnermusic.com\/?p=989"},"modified":"2020-08-03T16:51:51","modified_gmt":"2020-08-03T21:51:51","slug":"video-derrick-gardner-the-big-dig-band-heavens-to-murgatroyd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.derrickgardnermusic.com\/video-derrick-gardner-the-big-dig-band-heavens-to-murgatroyd\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Derrick Gardner &#038; The Big dig! Band &#8211; Heavens to Murgatroyd!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UPYceDJWHCU\" allowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Composed and arranged by Derrick Gardner for the 2020 Impact Jazz release &#8220;Still I Rise&#8221; by Derrick Gardner &amp; The Big dig! Band. \u201cHeavens to Murgatroyd!\u201d 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\u2014I 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 \u201cHeavens to Murgatroyd!\u201d in my head\u2014in 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\u2019s 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\u2014 it\u2019s crazy! Soloists: Derrick Gardner (trumpet), Vincent Gardner (trombone), Rob Dixon (tenor), Curtis Nowosad (drums), DJ Stop (DJ) Visit the album website at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?redir_token=QUFFLUhqbXl3bW5tSm9zLW1mVzNZUDBkcjVHM1NxaHVad3xBQ3Jtc0ttMzdlSWNuZ1BmUndvNDRNUjBrZm84STlpOFFMbjVXb2ppMTVwS3EzRjAwSk1rQWpIZHVCcHZGYVlRVjZaVXJHUm1jdHFzRnpQMU9hdVJDbW91UUtCRzVpVnRfTU0xZWFPRVlfSExDQ3JWczVibDRIdw%3D%3D&amp;q=http%3A%2F%2FStillIRiseAlbum.com&amp;v=UPYceDJWHCU&amp;event=video_description\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/StillIRiseAlbum.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHeavens to Murgatroyd\u201d is a song from Still I Rise, trumpeter\/composer Derrick Gardner\u2019s debut album as bandleader of a classic 18-piece jazz orchestra, The Big dig! Band.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":991,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[171],"tags":[214,227,211,6,228,229,230,226,77,53,213,212,220,68,67],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.derrickgardnermusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.derrickgardnermusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.derrickgardnermusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.derrickgardnermusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.derrickgardnermusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=989"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.derrickgardnermusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":992,"href":"https:\/\/www.derrickgardnermusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989\/revisions\/992"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.derrickgardnermusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.derrickgardnermusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.derrickgardnermusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.derrickgardnermusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}