{"id":3417,"date":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jazzusa.com\/the-idea-of-north-the-sum-of-us\/"},"modified":"2018-11-04T14:09:02","modified_gmt":"2018-11-04T22:09:02","slug":"the-idea-of-north-the-sum-of-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/?p=3417","title":{"rendered":"The Idea of North &#8211; The Sum of Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><b><font size=\"4\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:14pt\" color=\"Blue\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\">The Idea of North<br \/><\/font><font color=\"#0000FF\" face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:10pt\">The Sum of Us<\/font><\/b><br \/><font face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\" size=\"1\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:8pt\">(Magnetic Records &#8211; 2001)<br \/> by S.H. Watkins, Sr.<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><font size=\"2\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:10pt\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\" color=\"#000000\">The first thing you notice is that there are NO instruments. The Idea of North&#8217;s 2nd CD, <strong>The Sum of Us<\/strong> contains 11 tracks of the group&#8217;s unique and memorable a cappella sound, highlighted with some very funky and intricate vocal and body percussion. <strong>My Foolish Heart<\/strong> is saucy and crisp&#8230; and you&#8217;d SWEAR there are some instruments in there&#8230; somewhere. Their rendition of <em>Michael Jackson&#8217;s<\/em> <strong>Man in the Mirror<\/strong> is very melodic and simple. The harmonies are practised and their timing is tight.<\/p>\n<p>  The classic <strong>It&#8217;s Alright With Me<\/strong> is sprightly. Idea of North is on a par with other a capella groups like the <em>Persuasions<\/em> and (to a lesser degree) <em>Take 6<\/em>. The groovin&#8217; <strong>Mas Que Nada<\/strong> shows a lot of improvisation in their creation of the various percussive elements that make up the track, and it&#8217;s one of the few places that there are actual instruments (James Morrison&#8217;s quick Trombone licks). Based in Australia, I first heard these youngsters during a break at the I.A.J.E. convention in New York last year and they impressed me. We&#8217;ll be interviewing <strong>Idea of North<\/strong> in an upcoming issue of JazzUSA so stay tuned!  <\/font><\/p>\n<p>                <?php require($DOCUMENT_ROOT . \"_footer.htm\");   ??><\/body><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Idea of NorthThe Sum of Us(Magnetic Records &#8211; 2001)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3417","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=3417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11132,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3417\/revisions\/11132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}