{"id":3558,"date":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jazzusa.com\/joseph-diamond-not-your-typical-new-yorker\/"},"modified":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","modified_gmt":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","slug":"joseph-diamond-not-your-typical-new-yorker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/?p=3558","title":{"rendered":"Joseph Diamond &#8211; Not Your Typical New Yorker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"Left\">  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/storypix\/notyourtypicalnewyorker.jpg\" alt=\"Not Your Typical New Yorker\" align=\"Left\" hspace=\"8\" vspace=\"5\" width=\"150\"\/><font size=\"2\" color=\"Blue\" face=\"Verdana\">Not Your Typical New Yorker<\/font><br \/><font size=\"4\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:14pt\" color=\"Blue\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\">  Joseph Diamond<br \/><\/font>  <font face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"1\">(Basileus)<br \/> by Ricky Miller  <\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">  <font size=\"2\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:10pt\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\">  Joseph Diamond is a man with a mission, and he has the tools to accomplish it. He is persistent, talented, tenacious, and did I mention persistent? His new CD was released on his own independent label, <i>Basileus<\/i>, and Diamond&#8217;s persistence has gotten it stocked in some major locations. The fact that the album <i>jams<\/i> probably helps his cause a little bit too.  <\/p>\n<p>  The CD is entirely original, a mark in his favor, and the music is entirely enjoyable. A mixture of smooth and Latin-jazz genres, it is very uptempo and melodic. His style is reminiscent&#8230;of what? I don&#8217;t exactly know. Many of the songs already sounded like old friends to me. The title cut is very reminiscent of the Sample \/ Crusaders era, Diamond&#8217;s melodies dancing and teasing across the keyboard.<\/p>\n<p>  A Lot of the stylings on this CD seem to influenced by the bright, bouncy phrasing that made Sample so popular, as is evidenced on <i>M&amp;M<\/i> and <i>Hope<\/i>. They don&#8217;t SOUND like Sample, just his influence. The music is all Joseph Diamond. There is a distinctly Latin side to this release as well. My favorite (so far) is <i>Montoya<\/i>, the Spanish nickname he got in 1984 while working in Aruba. It has a strong Salsa rhythm and great guitar work and it sticks with you.  This is an CD that you tend to leave in for a while. <\/p>\n<p>  For more information or to hear audio samples, Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.josephdiamond.com\" target=\"_blamk\">The Joseph Diamond Web Site<\/a>.     <\/font><\/p>\n<p>  \t          <?php require($DOCUMENT_ROOT . \"_footer.htm\");   ??><\/body><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not Your Typical New Yorker Joseph Diamond (Basileus) by Ricky<\/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-3558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3558","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=3558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}