{"id":3344,"date":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jazzusa.com\/jamie-cullem-the-pursuit\/"},"modified":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","modified_gmt":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","slug":"jamie-cullem-the-pursuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/?p=3344","title":{"rendered":"Jamie Cullem &#8211; The Pursuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<table width=\"100%\" cellpadding=\"5\">\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/storypix\/the_pursuit.jpg\" align=\"right\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" \/><font size=\"3\" color=\"Blue\" face=\"Verdana\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:16px\"><strong>Jamie Cullem<\/strong><\/font><br \/><font size=\"2\" color=\"Blue\" face=\"Verdana\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:14px\"><strong>The Pursuit<\/strong><\/font><br \/><font face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\" color=\"000000\" size=\"1\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:11px\"> Universal &#8211; 2009<\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\" style=\"font-family:verdana; font-size:13px\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\"><\/p>\n<p>Acclaimed by critics as Jamie Cullum&#8217;s strongest album to date, &#8216;The Pursuit&#8217; finds the Essex-born crossover jazz pianist in eclectic mood. This follow-up to 2005&#8217;s &#8216;Catching Tales&#8217; was recorded at his home studio as well as in LA and features self-penned material alongside tracks written by Cole Porter amongst others. <\/p>\n<p>The cover of Rhinna&#8217;s <em>Please Don&#8217;t Stop The Music <\/em>is as wistful and brooding as the original. <em>Wheels <\/em>is an upbeat romp inspired by todays money market issues; I&#8217;m <em>All Over It <\/em>is a soft-rock sinfgle that deserves radio play. <\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0title is taken from Nancy Mitford&#8217;s classic novel, The Pursuit Of Love and sums up the album very well. &#8220;In life, we pursue everything. Life is one long pursuit,&#8221; says Jamie and the album is just such a pursuit &#8211; a combination of his eclectic music tastes and enduring love of Jazz and its timeless standards.<\/p>\n<p>It is a record that mixes his heritage with a thrilling selection of modern influences. Describing its sound he moves from Cole Porter to Rhianna to Aphex Twin in the same sentence. Jamie is a performer capable of delivering constant surprises with a talent elastic enough to evince a four-to-the-floor acoustic Ibiza song on the same record as a lushly recorded Jazz standard.<\/p>\n<p><font><br \/><?php require($DOCUMENT_ROOT . \"_footer.htm\");   ??><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/body><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamie CullemThe Pursuit Universal &#8211; 2009 Acclaimed by critics as<\/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-3344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3344","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=3344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}