{"id":3424,"date":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jazzusa.com\/claudia-acuna-wind-from-the-south\/"},"modified":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","modified_gmt":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","slug":"claudia-acuna-wind-from-the-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/?p=3424","title":{"rendered":"Claudia Acu\u00f1a &#8211; Wind from the South"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\">  <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/storypix\/WindfromtheSouth.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" vspace=\"5\"\/><font size=\"2\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:10pt\" color=\"Blue\" face=\"Verdana,Helvetica,\">  Wind from the South<\/font><br \/><font size=\"4\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:14pt\" color=\"Blue\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\">  Claudia Acu\u00f1a<\/font><br \/><font size=\"1\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\">(Verve &#8211; 2000)<br \/> by Matthew S. Robinson  <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">      Opening with a playful stretch of &#8220;Pure Imagination,&#8221; Chilean chanteuse  Claudia Acu\u00f1a  leads a talented band based around the central structures of  bassist\/co-producer Avishai Cohen, drummer Jeff Ballard and pianist Jason  Lindner through a series of contrapuntal improvisations. Performing songs  composed both by old guards like Ellington, Berlin, the Gershwins and  Rodgers and Hart  and newer standard bearers like Newly and Wonder, Acu\u00f1a  displays a penchant for original shaping which is at times overextended and  at others constrained.  <\/p>\n<p>   Among the odder arrangements are a rather  unremorseful telling of &#8220;My Man&#8217;s Gone Now&#8221; and a &#8220;Prelude To A Kiss&#8221; which  rushes to the main event. On the other hand, &#8220;What&#8217;ll I Do?&#8221; is  appropriately lost and lingering and &#8220;Bewitched&#8221;  is bewilderingly  multi-colored.  An aire of appreciation is carried through both sides of the  musical borders with the pairing of &#8220;Gracias A La Vida&#8221; and &#8220;Long As You&#8217;re  Living,&#8221; but despite a langauge barrier, the Spanish number  is more moving  than the often trite English version. &#8220;The Thrill Is Gone&#8221; bridges English  lyrics with Latinate rhythms, but some of the other songs just don&#8217;t  translate as well.     <\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><cfinclude template=\"adbanner.asp\"\/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<p>    <?php require($DOCUMENT_ROOT . \"_footer.htm\");   ??><\/body><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wind from the South Claudia Acu\u00f1a(Verve &#8211; 2000) by Matthew<\/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-3424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3424","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=3424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}