Wayman Tisdale - Way Up - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Wayman Tisdale had over 5000 rebounds in his stunning 12-year NBA career! Now, after a long battle with bone cancer, here is the most important REBOUND of his life. Fans and lovers of hot urban grooves and inspired melodies are ready to welcome Wayman back to the game... and not a moment too soon to lift retail out of it's current slump. Special guests include Dave Koz, Brian Simson, Robert Wilson of the Gap Band, Gospel legend Marvin Sapp. Plus a special new version of the Barry White classic, InchNever Gonna Give You UpInch performed with country giant Toby Keith.

Jazz bassist Wayman Tisdale returns with his new funkalicious album HANG TIME.

The seven parts of this suite are composed according to the way an oldfashioned Broadway musical is structured, as a tribute to Porter, Gershwin, Hammerstein and all those classic Broadway composers. Each piece is also dedicated to a composer and/or musician who for various reasons have meant a lot to me musically. The suite also marks my love for big bands, which goes back a long way, from when I danced as a teenager to Gugge Hedrenius' big band in Stockholm in the 80's. 2023 is the 30th anniversary of my first album Close (an album recorded by the same sound engineer as this one, the brilliant Åke Linton). I look back on these years with pride and joy, but also with some sentimentality. Thirty years, that is after all, my whole life as an adult with all the experiences a life can contain; happiness, disasters, births and deaths, and everything in between, as Shakespeare wrote InchAll the world's a stage, and all men and women but playersInch. That is also what I have tried to encompass in this suite; a piece performed with brilliance, warmth and commitment by the fantastic Bohuslän Big Band with whom I have had the honor of being Composer in Residence in 2022-23. Lina Nyberg