This track contains audio of the 7th number from my senior recital. I first heard the original version of this song (by S. Carey of Bon Iver) while watching an episode of house. The ambient aura that it gave off immediately sucked me in, and I had to find out the song's title and author. I remember grabbing the nearest pen & scrap paper I could find to quickly jot down the lyrics so that I could type them in google and find which song title they belonged to. Around a year or so prior to my recital, I was contemplating coming up with a unique piece that I could center a drum solo around. I eventually decided on arranging "In the Dirt" for small jazz quartet (bass, drums, piano, sax).

Dan Somerville