{"id":3321,"date":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jazzusa.com\/nnenna-freelon-tales-of-wonder\/"},"modified":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","modified_gmt":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","slug":"nnenna-freelon-tales-of-wonder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/?p=3321","title":{"rendered":"Nnenna Freelon &#8211; Tales of Wonder"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"left\"><b><font size=\"4\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:14pt\" color=\"Blue\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\">Nnenna Freelon<br \/><\/font><font color=\"#0000FF\" face=\"Verdana\" size=\"3\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:12pt\">Tales of Wonder<\/font><\/b><br \/><font face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\" size=\"1\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:8pt\">(Concord &#8211; 2002)<br \/> by Carmen Miller<\/font><\/div>\n<p align=\"left\">  <font size=\"2\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:10pt\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\" color=\"#000000\">Known for her innovative interpretations, <b>Nnenna Freelon&#8217;s<\/b> latest CD takes us on a musical journey through the mind and heart of <b>Stevie Wonder<\/b>. The is the first vocal album ever done in tribute to the musical genius and Nnenna does it wonderfully! You can just <i>feel<\/i> the happiness in her rendering of <i>Overjoyed<\/i>. <i>Superstition<\/i> is slower than the original, giving it a boost of funk while allowing more room for Nnenna to stamp it with her own inimitable style, falling off into a gritty scat match with bassist <b>Gerald Veasly<\/b> and altoist <b>Gerard Niewood<\/b> at one point. <i>All In Love Is Fair<\/i> is filled with depth, <b>Dave Samuels<\/b> vibe smoothly sauntering along side Freelon&#8217;s emotional vocal&#8230; I had to play this one twice before I went on.  <\/p>\n<p>      The mellow guitar of <b>Chuck Loeb<\/b> opens <i>Lately<\/i> which proceeds in a noticably latin vein. On <i>Tears of a Clown<\/i> she begins to stretch out, allowing her vocal range and control to scuplt the tune. The tracks go on and on&#8230;<i>Bird of Beauty, Send One Your Love, Another Star<\/i>.. all transformed by Nnenna Frelon&#8217;s interpretive style and accentuated by a group of fine musicians. The full title of this CD is <i>Tales of Wonder: Celebrating Stevie Wonder<\/i> and that describes it best&#8230; a Celebration. There&#8217;ll be at least one more <i>Grammy<\/i> nomination coming from this production.                <?php require($DOCUMENT_ROOT . \"_footer.htm\");   ??><\/font><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nnenna FreelonTales of Wonder(Concord &#8211; 2002) by Carmen Miller Known<\/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-3321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3321","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=3321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}