{"id":3639,"date":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jazzusa.com\/marcus-johnson-poetically-justified\/"},"modified":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","modified_gmt":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","slug":"marcus-johnson-poetically-justified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/?p=3639","title":{"rendered":"Marcus Johnson &#8211; Poetically Justified"},"content":{"rendered":"<table width=\"100%\" cellpadding=\"5\">\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/storypix\/Poetically_Justified.jpg\" align=\"right\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" \/><font size=\"3\" color=\"Blue\" face=\"Verdana\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:16px\"><strong>Marcus Johnson<\/strong><\/font><br \/><font size=\"2\" color=\"Blue\" face=\"Verdana\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:14px\"><strong>Poetically Justified<\/strong><\/font><br \/><font face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\" color=\"000000\" size=\"1\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:11px\">  Three Keys &#8211; 2009<br \/>Ray Redmond<\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\" style=\"font-family:verdana; font-size:13px\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\"><\/p>\n<p>Hang on folks&#8230; some say that smooth jazz may be ailing, but <strong>Marcus Johnson<\/strong>&#8216;s new release <em>Poetically Justified<\/em> definitely gives it a hearty shot in the arm. The release showcases several guest appearances from some of Johnson&#8217;s musician friends including vocalist <strong>Miles Jaye, <\/strong>who<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>lends his soulful voice to &#8220;Capice&#8221; and &#8220;Heaven&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>R&amp;B siren <strong>Maysa <\/strong>(of Incognito fame) is featured on two tracks, the uptempo and slightly arhythmic\u00a0&#8220;Hold On&#8221;,\u00a0 and &#8220;Master of My Heart&#8221; which\u00a0may be the best track on this talent filled and quality stacked CD.\u00a0To make it even better jazz\u00a0superstar <strong>Najee <\/strong>adds his\u00a0signature sax sound to the upbeat and rhythmic &#8220;I See You&#8221;.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>Johnson&#8217;s cover of Michael Jackson&#8217;s &#8220;This Place Hotel&#8221;\u00a0is the first single off of the CD. The CD opener, &#8220;Chillaxin&#8221;, is probably targeted as the &#8216;hit&#8217; and will no doubt wow Johnson&#8217;s loyal fans and earn Johnson yet another appearance on the Billboard charts. This is definitely a keeper!<\/p>\n<p><font><br \/><?php require($DOCUMENT_ROOT . \"_footer.htm\");   ??><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/body><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marcus JohnsonPoetically Justified Three Keys &#8211; 2009Ray Redmond Hang on<\/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-3639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3639","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=3639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}