''Time Tripping'' is an album (LP Vinyl) released by the

Fullerton College Fullerton College (FC) is a public community college in Fullerton, California. The college is part of the California Community Colleges System and the North Orange County Community College District. Established in 1913, it is the oldest communi ...

Jazz Band for the

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Trend AM-PM label, it became the

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Magazine 1st Place Award Winner in the College Big Band Jazz category for 1983.

Background

In 1981 the Music Department at

built a 16 track in house recording facility which was to serve as a teaching tool for both student music groups and students wanting to take recording technology classes at a vocational level. ''Time Tripping'' is the second of many albums to come out of this studio to feature the award-winning

Jazz Band. The LP does contain tracks from three of the Fullerton College jazz groups: Jazz Band I, Jazz Band II, Connection Jazz Combo. The distinctive qualities about the LP that set it apart from numerous college jazz records (what people think of as promotional demos) is the fact it was a two-year community college able to get on a label so quickly and the LP received 1st place as the

Magazine best College Big Band Jazz album for 1983. Albert Marx, who was the owner of

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AM-PM label, became very impressed with the band and the level of the music coming from the jazz groups at Fullerton College. He decided to support the younger, up and coming jazz students/players from the greater Los Angeles/Southern California region by producing certain LPs. Dave Dexter, Jr., formerly with Capitol Records and a writer for both

and

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s, did the liner notes for the LP jacket. "Frankly, I detected no difference in the quality of the music," Dave Dexter, Jr. says from the liner notes, when hearing the different groups' tracks. The album beat out recordings in

from heavy-weight groups at large universities and prestigious music schools such as the

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's Jazz Orchestra, the

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's Concert Jazz Band and

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's Grammy nominated

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. After this recording there became a consistent tradition of musicians coming from the

program who have worked with major musical acts, on major studio and movie projects, and hold positions in higher education in music. The roster on this album is self-evident as to the diversity and level of student musicians

developed at that time and has for many years. In 1998 the group and one track from the album ("Battle Of The Bop Brothers") was featuring on a compilation CD released by

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entitled
Taking Notes - Volume 2, Showcasing the Worlds Top Jazz Students
"Taking Notes - Volume 2, Showcasing the Worlds Top Jazz Students, BMG Records This same track is also featured on the 1998 CD ''Celebration - The Fullerton College Jazz Festival 25th Anniversary.''

Track listing

Recording Sessions

* recorded January 26, 27, and 28, 1983,

, Fullerton, California

Personnel

Musicians

* Conductors
Terry Blackley
an
James Linahon
* Piano (guest soloist): Tom Ranier * Sax (guest soloist)
Ernie Del Fante
* Trumpet (guest soloist): James Linahon * Saxes and woodwinds: Steve Villa

Jack Cooper, Phil Walker, : Harold Manning, Brian Bez
Tony MorrisEdmund Velasco
Laura Nixon, Ed Valizan * Trumpets and flugelhorns
Charlie PetersonPhillip Wightman

Kye Palmer Kye Palmer is a trumpet player who is a Los Angeles studio musician, most notable as a former member of The Tonight Show Band from 2006 to 2009. On April 10, 2006, Palmer replaced Lee Thornburg in The Tonight Show Band and was there for the last ...

, Randy Ames, Mike Anthony, Robert Villegas, Phil Peterson, Mark New, Brett Pallet * Trombones
Tim Hoff
Mark McLaren
Rich Berkeley
Clint Anna
Scott Eilers
Roger Olsen
Wendell Kelly
Pat McCarty
Bob Heller
* Guitar

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* Piano
Mark Stephens
Barbara Farkas * Bass
Tim GivensDenise Briese
* Drums
Dave Hitchings
Pat Ready

Production

* Recording engineers: Alex Cima and James Linahon * Second recording engineer: Randy Beers * Mixing engineers: Alex Cima, Terry Blackley, Roger Myers, and James Linahon. * Mastering: Dave Ellsworth * Photography: Tom Leonard and James Aul * Cover photo: Peggy Rahman * Liner notes: Dave Dexter, Jr. * Album title: Karen Ray-Blackley * Album design: Lenora Hennessy, KM Records * Album coordination: Karen Stone, KM Records * Album supervision: Debra Robins

Reception

Down Beat Magazine 1st Place Award Winner in the College Big Band Jazz category

References

External links

* * * *
Official website
{{Authority control 1984 albums Fullerton College Jazz Band albums