Time: 79:04
Size: 181.0 MB
Styles: Contemporary jazz
Year: 2015
Art: Front
[4:50] 1. I'm Always Chasing Rainbows
[5:59] 2. Broadway
[5:05] 3. Fancifree
[3:34] 4. 'round Midnight
[3:05] 5. Almost Grown
[5:42] 6. Moten Swing
[6:03] 7. Sultry Serenade
[4:46] 8. I Love You, Samatha
[3:55] 9. When It's Sleepy Down South
[5:24] 10. If I Only Had A Brain
[6:03] 11. In A Mellow Tone
[3:53] 12. It's All Right With Me
[5:31] 13. On The Sunny Side Of The Street
[6:49] 14. Move
[3:34] 15. Rosetta
[4:45] 16. Bye, Bye Blackbird
Dave Ratajczak is a full time percussionist in the New York metropolitan area. A highly versatile performer, some of the artists Mr. Ratajczak has performed and recorded with include The Woody Herman Orchestra, Gerry Mulligan, Audra McDonald, Rosemary Clooney, Eddie Daniels, Gerry Niewood, Grady Tate, Milt Hinton and Kenny Rankin. One of Mr. Ratajczak's career highlights involved recreating the role of jazz drumming great Gene Krupa with Bob Wilbur's orchestra in a Carnegie Hall performance celebrating the 50th anniversary of Benny Goodman's historic 1938 jazz concert.
As a studio musician, his wide range of recording experience includes movie soundtracks (Dead Man Walking, Cradle Will Rock, Wolf, The Pelican Brief, Object of My Affection, It Could Be You, Miller's Crossing, Brighton Beach Memoirs and Biloxi Blues), television commercials and radio jingles.
On Broadway he has performed in the orchestras of such Tony award winning shows as Titanic, City Of Angels and Crazy For You. In the Spring of 2000, Mr. Ratajczak will be performing in a new production of the Broadway classic Music Man
A graduate of the Eastman School of Music, Dave is also in the music education field. In addition to Hofstra University, he is currently a member of the NYU and New Jersey University Music Department faculties, and has performed master classes and clinics at Michigan State, the Eastman School of Music, Hartt College, Rowen College, the University of Connecticut at Storrs, as well as numerous clinics while with Woody Herman's Orchestra.
As a studio musician, his wide range of recording experience includes movie soundtracks (Dead Man Walking, Cradle Will Rock, Wolf, The Pelican Brief, Object of My Affection, It Could Be You, Miller's Crossing, Brighton Beach Memoirs and Biloxi Blues), television commercials and radio jingles.
On Broadway he has performed in the orchestras of such Tony award winning shows as Titanic, City Of Angels and Crazy For You. In the Spring of 2000, Mr. Ratajczak will be performing in a new production of the Broadway classic Music Man
A graduate of the Eastman School of Music, Dave is also in the music education field. In addition to Hofstra University, he is currently a member of the NYU and New Jersey University Music Department faculties, and has performed master classes and clinics at Michigan State, the Eastman School of Music, Hartt College, Rowen College, the University of Connecticut at Storrs, as well as numerous clinics while with Woody Herman's Orchestra.
Almost Grown