{"id":3562,"date":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jazzusa.com\/mike-longo-oasis\/"},"modified":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","modified_gmt":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","slug":"mike-longo-oasis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/?p=3562","title":{"rendered":"Mike Longo &#8211; Oasis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/storypix\/Oasis.jpg\" align=\"left\" border=\"1\" vspace=\"0\" height=\"108\" width=\"110\"\/><font size=\"3\" color=\"Blue\" face=\"Verdana\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:18px\"><strong>Mike Longo<br \/><font size=\"2\">and the New York State of the Art Jazz Ensemble<br \/><\/font>  <font size=\"3\" color=\"Blue\" face=\"Verdana\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:16px\">Oasis<\/font><\/strong><\/font><br \/><font face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\" size=\"1\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:11px\">(Cap Records &#8211; 2004) <br \/> by Paula Edelstein<br \/><\/font>  <font size=\"2\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:13px\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\" color=\"#000000\">  This is a masterful offering from one of jazz&#8217;s true patriots, pianist Mike Longo. An alum of Dizzy Gillespie&#8217;s band, Longo offers his fans 13 superior compositions and arrangements that were written for 17 pieces \u0096 4 trumpets, 4 trombones, 5 saxophones, piano, guitar, bass and drums. Of special note on <em>Oasis<\/em> is the brilliant execution of the  brass and wind charts.  Opening with &#8220;Bag of Bones,&#8221; a tribute to Mile Jackson who was affectionately known as &#8220;Bags&#8221; \u0096 Longo captures the spirit of Jackson as he remembers him. A great solo from Lee Greene on alto sax keeps this real. <\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;Love Walked In,&#8221; features the debut of vocalist Hilary Garnder who does a great job here. &#8220;Alone Together,&#8221; is given a new twist by setting it against a Salsa beat, taking it to a 4\/4 swing and then returning to the Salsa at the end! A great quote of &#8220;Nature Boy&#8221; helps spice up this set under the swinging trumpet solo of Joe Magnarelli. &#8220;Infusion&#8221; represents the current movement in jazz sometimes referred to as the &#8220;neo-bop&#8221; movement. Here Longo preserves certain elements of bebop while adding new harmonics. The definitive piece on OASIS, this song really swings.<\/p>\n<p><!--#include file=_Reprint_sotj.inc--><cfinclude template=\"adbanner.asp\"><?php require($DOCUMENT_ROOT . \"_footer.htm\");   ??><\/cfinclude><\/font><\/body><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Longoand the New York State of the Art Jazz<\/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-3562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3562","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=3562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}