{"id":3682,"date":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jazzusa.com\/ray-brown-monty-alexander-russell-malone\/"},"modified":"2012-07-13T03:02:13","modified_gmt":"2012-07-13T10:02:13","slug":"ray-brown-monty-alexander-russell-malone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/?p=3682","title":{"rendered":"Ray Brown, Monty Alexander, Russell Malone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: large; color: blue; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica;\"> <strong>Ray Brown, Monty Alexander, Russell Malone<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size: xx-small; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica;\"><br \/>\n(Telarc Jazz &#8211; 2002)<br \/>\nby S.H. Watkins, Sr.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica;\"> <em>Ray Brown, Monty Alexander and Russell Malone<\/em>, is the last recording in bassist Ray Brow&#8217;s long and storied career. This eleven track collection joins Brown&#8217;s smooth bass with Alexander&#8217;s studied piano style and <em>Russel Malone<\/em>, maybe the best young guitarist out there right now. From the slow, poignant opening piano on <em>Django<\/em>, Brown, Alexander and Malone cruise through a sea of standards like <em>Fly Me To the Moon<\/em>, <em>Honeysuckle Rose<\/em> and Dexter Gordon&#8217;s eponymous <em>Dexter&#8217;s Dex<\/em>. The standards blend seamlessly with some great new material, including the smooth, smokey <em>Blues for Junior<\/em> and the lively <em>One for Hamp<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Alexander takes the lead on his wistful <em>Don&#8217;t Go<\/em>, followed a couple tracks later by his playful <em>You Can See<\/em>, while Malone weighs in with his easygoing <em>Look Who&#8217;s Here<\/em>, not to mention some memorable guitar runs on the opening <em>Django<\/em>. This recording also includes a limited edition bonus disc highlighting <strong>Ray Brown&#8217;s<\/strong> fourteen-year, eighteen-disc catalog on Telarc as chosen by his producer, Elaine Martone. It includes tracks from seven different recordings and includes the 1995 recording of <em>St. Louis Blues<\/em> with <em>Ahmad Jahmal<\/em> and <em>Lewis Nash<\/em>. <\/span> <!--?php require($DOCUMENT_ROOT . \"_footer.htm\");   ??--><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ray Brown, Monty Alexander, Russell Malone (Telarc Jazz &#8211; 2002)<\/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-3682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3682","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=3682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8206,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3682\/revisions\/8206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}