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Midwest Record	Highly favorable
All About Jazz (3)	Notable of 2015 #1 of top 12 "Most Recommended" reviews of 2015
Down Beat
Jazz Weekly	Highly favorable
Jazz Scan	Highly favorable
Percussive Notes PAS Journal	Highly favorable
International Association of Jazz Record Collectors IAJRC Journal	Highly favorable
Jazz Journal
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The Jazz Reader
Improvijazzation Nation
WRTI 90.1 Philadelphia	Best of 2015 Big Band Jazz Releases
WRTI 90.1 Philadelphia	Top 100 Jazz Countdown #67
ART ON MY SLEEVE	Jazz: The Best CDs of 2015
O's Place Jazz Newsletter
Tom Hull Best Jazz Albums of 2015	B

Time Within Itself is a big band jazz album produced by Origin Records and released March 17, 2015. The concept for the recording came from the idea of a high level feature CD showcasing the Michael Waldrop Big Band. Most notably, music critic Jack Bowers gave the recording 4 and a half of 5 stars and notes, "...Waldrop's first visit to a recording studio with his own big band was worth the wait."

Early in 2013 Michael Waldrop forwarded a portfolio of songs (jazz instrumentals) to Jack Cooper in order to commission big band arrangements. After Cooper arrived back from a trip to England in the Summer or 2013 he was finally able to assess the tunes and make some decisions. Because of the high quality of Waldrop's compositions it was suggested he try to pursue a whole commercial CD that would feature Waldrop. A substantial grant ($10,000) was obtained by Waldrop from Eastern Washington University to doing a CD.

Both a commercial big band CD and a 'Music Minus One' (for students drummers) types of projects were pursued. Due to the complexity of having both types of recordings and the many cost prohibitive factors involved, the decision was made to recorded during the Summer of 2014 in Dallas, Texas. The studio used was Crystal Clear Sound located in the northern part of the city. Soon after that recording session on July 11, 2014, John Bishop at Origin Records was approached about carrying the CD as a commercial recording (two other labels were in the running for this). The level of artists used on the recording was very high: many of these musicians are both established recording artists and full-time college educators.

All tracks written by Michael Waldrop and Jack Cooper.

Recorded at Crystal Clear Sound, Dallas, Texas.

The 'Time Within Itself' CD was premiered in Memphis, Tennessee on March 7, 2015 by the Jazz Orchestra of the Delta as part of the University of Memphis Jazz Week performances. The album had its Northwest U.S. premiere on July 27, 2015 at Tula's Jazz Club in Seattle, Washington with the Northwest version of the Michael Waldrop Big Band. Waldrop and his big band were invited to perform the album at the Jazz Education Network International Conference in Louisville, Kentucky on January 9, 2016. The original ensemble from the recording performed; included were guest artists Brad Dutz and Billy Hulting. The music from the Time Within Itself CD has acquired significant international recognition to include other groups playing the music. The Swingin' Paradise Jazz Orchestra in Tokyo, Japan performed Tunnell Vision on July 18, 2016 at Musasino Big Band Jazz Festival.

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