{"id":3292,"date":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jazzusa.com\/toni-redd-straight-from-the-heart\/"},"modified":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","modified_gmt":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","slug":"toni-redd-straight-from-the-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/?p=3292","title":{"rendered":"Toni Redd &#8211; Straight From The Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"stories\/..\/storypix\/StraightFromTheHeart.jpg\" height=\"120\" width=\"120\" align=\"left\" border=\"1\"\/><font size=\"3\" color=\"Blue\" face=\"Verdana\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:16px\"><strong>Toni Redd<\/strong><\/font>  <br \/><font size=\"2\" color=\"Blue\" face=\"Verdana\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:14px\"><strong>Straight From The Heart<\/strong><\/font>    <font face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"1\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:11px\"><br \/>(Toni Redd &#8211; 2006)<br \/> by Carmen Miller<\/p>\n<p><\/font>  <font size=\"2\" style=\"font-family:verdana; font-size:13px\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\">     Toni is an old fashioned &#8216;class act&#8217; who covers a wide range of musical styles with style and conviction. Toni Redd combines traditional jazz, contemporary smooth jazz, classic soul, and Urban rhythm &amp; blues to create her own powerful presence. I particularly liked the opener &#8220;My Name is Toni Redd&#8221; and  &#8220;Open Your Love&#8221;, as well as the her smooth and sensual rendition of &#8220;footsteps in the dark&#8221;. Another good track is the bouncy &#8220;Talk About It&#8221;.  <\/p>\n<p>  Ms. Redd&#8217;s take on the classic &#8220;Betcha By Golly Wow&#8221; is a bit overly stylized, but it&#8217;s one of those songs that is hard to redo. I suspect it would have come off better if she had just felt it, rather than trying so hard to make it her own.   <\/p>\n<p>  A mix of originals and covers, <b>Straight From The Heart<\/b> is a bit uneven in its appeal, but on the whole this is a pretty good CD and deserves a listen.  <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\" color=\"maroon\">Credits: Ms. Redd has shared concert billing with Gerald Albright, Jonathan Butler, The Rippingtons, Pieces of A Dream, Alex Bugnioin, Angela Bofill, Rick Braun, Everette Harp, The Yellowjackets, Gerald Alston, Stanley Jordan, Brian Bromberg, Steve Cole, Fattburger, Chico Debarge, Pamela Williams, &#8220;Maysa&#8221;, Warren Hill, Oleta Adams, Kim Waters and The Temptations.<\/font>  <\/p>\n<hr size=\"1\"\/><cfinclude template=\"adbanner.asp\"><\/p>\n<hr size=\"1\"\/><?php require($DOCUMENT_ROOT . \"_footer.htm\");   ??><\/cfinclude><\/font><\/body><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toni Redd Straight From The Heart (Toni Redd &#8211; 2006)<\/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-3292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3292","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=3292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}