{"id":3661,"date":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jazzusa.com\/nguyen-lecirc-purple-celebrating-jimi-hendrix\/"},"modified":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","modified_gmt":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","slug":"nguyen-lecirc-purple-celebrating-jimi-hendrix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/?p=3661","title":{"rendered":"Nguy\u00ean L&#038;ecirc &#8211; Purple: Celebrating Jimi Hendrix"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"right\"><b><font color=\"#0000FF\" face=\"Verdana\" size=\"3\" style=\"font-size:16px\">Nguy\u00ean L\u00ea<br \/><\/font><font size=\"4\" color=\"Blue\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\" style=\"font-size:18px\">Purple<br \/><\/font><\/b><font face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\" size=\"1\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:10px\">(ACT Music  &#8211; 2003)<br \/> by Ricky Miller<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/div>\n<p>  <font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\" color=\"#000000\" style=\"font-size:13px\">  Over ther years there have been a lot of Jimi Hendrix covers and tributes, but not so many in jazz and even less that were <em>innovative<\/em>. That&#8217;s the best word to describe this CD. Le teams up with drummer \/ vocalist <strong>Terri Lynne Carrington<\/strong> to bring us one of the more <em>Innovative<\/em> renditions of Jimi&#8217;s music that I&#8217;ve heard. <em>Manic Depression<\/em> is uptempoed a bit and, despite the fact that the vocals are sung in Vietnamese by <em>Aida Khann<\/em>, the song is actually treated like a standard. Bassist <strong>Meshelle NdegeOcello<\/strong>  makes a guest appearance on an airy <em>Are You Experienced<\/em> and an ethnically influenced <em>Voodoo Child<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>  Nguyen Le, a self taught guitarist, has a good feel for Hendrix nuances having started interpreting Hendrix music ten years ago. With <em>Purple Haze <\/em>Le adds some interesting effects to mash with Carrington&#8217;s vocals. One of my favorite Jimi songs is <em>If 6 was 9<\/em>, and here Le and vocalist Khann are <em>sizzling<\/em> as the vocals and tempo switch from english language funk-rock to a very sexy French vocal jazz groove with some killer Fender Rhodes from <strong>Bojan Zulfikarpasic<\/strong>&#8230; and then back to the hard groove at the end. Great track. Great CD.  <\/font>      <cfinclude template=\"adbanner.asp\"><?php require($DOCUMENT_ROOT . \"_footer.htm\");   ??><\/cfinclude><\/body><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nguy\u00ean L\u00eaPurple(ACT Music &#8211; 2003) by Ricky Miller Over ther<\/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-3661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3661","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=3661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}