{"id":3697,"date":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jazzusa.com\/lucio-hopper-reflections\/"},"modified":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","modified_gmt":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","slug":"lucio-hopper-reflections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/?p=3697","title":{"rendered":"Lucio Hopper &#8211; Reflections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  <font color=\"blue\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\" size=\"4\">  Lucio Hopper<\/font><br \/><font color=\"blue\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\" size=\"2\">  Reflections<\/font><br \/><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\" size=\"1\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:8pt\">  (Ralston Hill &#8211; 2000)<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" height=\"8\" src=\"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/.gif\" width=\"4\" align=\"middle\"\/> by Sidney Bechet-Mandela<\/font><\/p>\n<p>  <font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\" color=\"black\">  It&#8217;s almost sinful how some of the best smooth jazz never makes it to  the airwaves.  It&#8217;s as if the acts in regular rotation are coasting with  their new music, while those bubbling under the charts are striving to make  the cut with exciting music that pushes the rather shallow smooth jazz  envelope.  The problem is that programmers are underestimating their  audiences, thinking that listeners don&#8217;t want anything to jolt them into  paying attention to the musical wallpaper they&#8217;re being force-fed.  The  result is that great, musically savvy albums, like this one, that fit firmly  into the smooth jazz window are allowed through the cracks.  <\/p>\n<p>  Hopper, a bassist with impressive credential, has delivered a quite  listen-able nine track offering that sparkles with a smooth sheen that is  delightful.  If there is one tune that could make the airwaves, it&#8217;s the  only cover on the album, a hip version of Bill Withers&#8217; &#8220;A Lovely Day,&#8221; that  brings to mind smooth jazz regulars Joe McBride and Kevin Toney.  Hopper  wrote all the other tunes and proves that he has thoroughly absorbed the  essence of the smooth jazz movement.  &#8220;Reflections&#8221; is also a wonderfully  recorded album that does not suffer from over production.  Quite the  contrary, this could be the sleeper smooth jazz album of the year.  <\/font><\/p>\n<p>          <?php require($DOCUMENT_ROOT . \"_footer.htm\");   ??><\/body><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lucio Hopper Reflections (Ralston Hill &#8211; 2000) by Sidney Bechet-Mandela<\/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-3697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3697","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=3697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}