{"id":3307,"date":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jazzusa.com\/jonathan-butler-surrender\/"},"modified":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","modified_gmt":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","slug":"jonathan-butler-surrender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/?p=3307","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan Butler  &#8211; Surrender"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"right\"><b><font size=\"4\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:14pt\" color=\"Blue\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\">Jonathan Butler<br \/><\/font><font color=\"#0000FF\" face=\"Verdana\" size=\"3\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:12pt\">Surrender<\/font><\/b><br \/><font face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\" size=\"1\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:8pt\">(Warner &#8211; 2002)<br \/> by Ricky Miller<br \/><\/font>  <\/div>\n<p align=\"left\"><font size=\"2\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:10pt\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\" color=\"#000000\">Like an old friend, Jonathan Butler is back and smooth as he wants to be.  &#8220;This Is Love&#8221; is a spiritual song reflecting his thanks to the creator for life and love. Rich and soulful, this is definitely the old Jonathan Butler. The instrumental title track &#8220;Surrender&#8221; is a smooth and soulful groove featuring Boney James on Soprano Sax.  &#8220;Take Me Back&#8221; and &#8220;River Of Life&#8221; are also spiritual in tone (like track 1) but beautiful and heartfelt nonetheless. &#8220;Pata Pata&#8221; is also semi-instrumental (background vocals only) and gives Jonathan a chance to stretch out a little bit.  &#8220;Thought of You&#8221; is a jazzy vocal track with a touch of <i>Ben Sidran<\/i> influence in it. <\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;Back To Love&#8221; is romantic, a love song where Butler shows off his gift for vocalese accompaniment. &#8220;Many Faces&#8221; has a nice organ sound riff carrying the track and again, we are treated to Jonathan&#8217;s emotional vocalese. I enjoyed this CD a lot. It is apparent that Jonathan is surrendering to the roots that made the popular artist he is, and regaining touch with those roots with the release of one of the best CD&#8217;s he&#8217;s put out in years. It&#8217;s a must have for all fans of good music.    <\/p>\n<p> For more information visit the <a href=\"Http:\/\/jonathanbutler.com\" target=\"_blank\">Jonathan Butler Web Site<\/a>      <?php require($DOCUMENT_ROOT . \"_footer.htm\");   ??><\/font><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan ButlerSurrender(Warner &#8211; 2002) by Ricky Miller Like an old<\/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-3307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3307","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=3307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}