{"id":10831,"date":"2016-09-29T00:01:33","date_gmt":"2016-09-29T07:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jazzusa.com\/?p=10831"},"modified":"2018-10-25T20:22:46","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T03:22:46","slug":"10831","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/?p=10831","title":{"rendered":"Maysa &#8211; Blue Velvet Soul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maysa holds unique status in the world of R&amp;B\/Jazz. Her incomparably lush, sensuous vocals have garnered her legions of loyal, loving fans. As featured vocalist of the UK super group Incognito, core member of Stevie Wonder&#8217;s Wonderlove and, of course, through her own albums and concerts, Maysa has been thrilling R&amp;B and Jazz audiences for decades.<\/p>\n<p>Blue Velvet Soul is far and away the most sensuous and heartfelt recording of her brilliant career. Maysa thrills us with a stirring rendition of the Mariah Carey classic &#8220;I Still Believe&#8221; and her version of &#8220;Quiet Fire&#8221; a loving tribute to her mentor and role model Nancy Wilson that will leave you breathless!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pHEQNqXwxQk?feature=player_detailpage\" height=\"300\" width=\"480\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A special highlight is the guest vocal appearance and soulful production by Jean Paul &#8220;Bluey&#8221; Bluey Maunick , the creator of Incognito, who contribute 3\u00a0originals to this. R&amp;B super producer Mike City (Rihanna, Jamie Foxx, Ledisi) contributes several brilliant originals to the mix, and Chris &#8220;Big Dog&#8221; Davis (Kim Burrell, Will Downing, George Clinton), Maysa&#8217;s longtime collaborator and inspiration, round out the inspired supporting cast!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maysa holds unique status in the world of R&amp;B\/Jazz. Her<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jazz_reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10831"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10926,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10831\/revisions\/10926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}