{"id":3530,"date":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jazzusa.com\/kei-akagi-new-smiles-and-traveled-miles\/"},"modified":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","modified_gmt":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","slug":"kei-akagi-new-smiles-and-traveled-miles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/?p=3530","title":{"rendered":"Kei Akagi &#8211; New Smiles and Traveled Miles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" src=\"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/storypix\/NewSmilesandTraveledMiles.jpg\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" alt=\"Kei Akagi\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\"\/><font color=\"blue\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\" size=\"4\">  <a name=\"Kei Akagi\">Kei Akagi<\/a><\/font><br \/><font color=\"blue\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\" size=\"2\">  New Smiles and Traveled Miles<\/font><br \/><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\" size=\"1\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:8pt\">  (Green Note  \u0096 2000)<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" height=\"6\" align=\"absmiddle\" src=\"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/.gif\" width=\"4\"\/> by Sidney Bechet-Mandela  <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\" color=\"#000000\">  Maybe I was expecting too much, knowing Akagi&#8217;s impressive resume.  As  a piano trio record, a tribute to Miles Davis doesn&#8217;t seem like a bad idea,  especially with a few quality standards thrown in that he was known to play.  How could you lose, especially with a Miles Davis alumnus?  Well, lets just  say, Herbie would&#8217;ve made a better tribute record.  Heck, maybe all of Miles  &#8216; key-boys would&#8217;ve, from Red Garland to Bobby Irving III.  Again, not that&#8217;  s it&#8217;s a bad idea, but there&#8217;s none of Miles spirit in this 12 song snoozer.  <\/p>\n<p>  Other than a decent version of Miles&#8217; &#8220;Petit Machins,&#8221;  Akagi is  self-indulgent and quite introspective.  So was Miles you say, yeah, but he  always had a stellar supporting cast.  Programming the 1947 &#8220;Milestones,&#8221;  next to the 1955 song &#8220;Miles,&#8221;  that became incorrectly known as  &#8220;Milestones,&#8221; was a cute idea, and taking the older more lyrical line a tad  slower works, but the latter tune is a hard angular bopper that not only  wasn&#8217;t written for introspection, it sounds corny when tried.  The range of  Miles&#8217; music performed here is broad, even going up to the Marcus Miller  years, which Akagi was a part of, and performing a tepid version of the  bassist&#8217;s tribute to Jaco, &#8220;Mr. Pastorius.&#8221;   Usually bad tribute albums  just make me want to hear the honored musician.  This one just made me want  to take it off.  <\/font><\/p>\n<p>                <center>      <?php require($DOCUMENT_ROOT . \"_footer.htm\");   ??><\/center><\/body><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kei Akagi New Smiles and Traveled Miles (Green Note \u0096<\/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-3530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3530","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=3530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}