{"id":3095,"date":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jazzusa.com\/jimmy-sommers-360-urban-groove-2\/"},"modified":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","modified_gmt":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","slug":"jimmy-sommers-360-urban-groove-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/?p=3095","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Sommers &#8211; 360 Urban Groove"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"Left\">  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/storypix\/360urbangroove.jpg\" alt=\"360 Urban Groove\" align=\"Right\" hspace=\"8\" vspace=\"5\" width=\"250\"\/><font size=\"2\" color=\"Blue\" face=\"Verdana\">360 Urban Groove<\/font><br \/><font size=\"4\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:14pt\" color=\"Blue\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\">  Jimmy Sommers <br \/><\/font>  <font face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"1\">(Higher Octave &#8211; 2001)<br \/> by Ray Redmond  <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:10pt\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\">  <i>360 Urban groove<\/i>, obviously aimed at the Urban Adult Contemporary crowd, combines Sommers&#8217; smoking sax with vocals from some recognized R&amp;B artists. When you see names like <b>Les Nubians<\/b> and <b>Eric Ben\u00eat<\/b>   don&#8217;t just write this off as &#8216;acid jazz&#8217;&#8230; LISTEN! The music is (mostly) JAZZ, using different vocalists than the <i>jazz<\/i> world is used to, creating a <i>new mix<\/i>. The original tune <i>Falling For You<\/i>, featuring co-writer <b>Gerry Johnson<\/b> on guitar, is as sweet a song as any that ever found airtime on the Smooth Jazz circuit.<\/p>\n<p>  Labelmates <b>Les Nubians<\/b> are part of the <i>M\u00eanagea Trois<\/i> that starts things off. <b>Norman Brown<\/b> jumps in with his guitar and vocals on the hot title track <i>360 Groove<\/i>. The Boz Scaggs hit <i>Lowdown<\/i> is a familiar bit in the mix, and I had to listen twice to notice where <b>Coolio<\/b> actually sang on the song (he&#8217;s in the background). <i>Cruisin&#8217;<\/i>, features <b>Raphael Saadiq<\/b> contributing some down-home guitar and shows some of Sommers&#8217; Chicago-Blues roots. <b>Eric Benet<\/b> does a very smooth vocalese thing on the sax-y ballad <i>Stay a While<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>  A mixture of Smooth-jazz and R&amp;B, <i>360 Urban Groove<\/i> is a good example of where a large part of todays younger Jazz audience resides&#8230; in a land where Jazz,  R&amp;B and World music collide to bring something that&#8217;s 360 degrees from the old school.   <\/font><\/p>\n<p>  \t          <?php require($DOCUMENT_ROOT . \"_footer.htm\");   ??><\/body><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>360 Urban Groove Jimmy Sommers (Higher Octave &#8211; 2001) by<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3095","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=3095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}